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deredman
Jun 13, 2021Initiate
Overwriting a NAS when storage is full or a percentage full
NETGEAR ReadyNAS RN214 4 Bay Diskless Personal Cloud NAS Is there a setting for overwriting files when the storage is full or a percentage or amount of memory is reached or full? I want to use t...
DEADDEADBEEF
Jun 13, 2021Apprentice
It's not a setting in the NAS itself but most likely a setting in your CCTV/DVR software
- StephenBJun 13, 2021Guru - Experienced User
DEADDEADBEEF wrote:
It's not a setting in the NAS itself but most likely a setting in your CCTV/DVR software
I agree. There's no way I can think of to do this in the NAS. If the videos are stored as separate files (using motion detection), than it would be possible to write a script that deletes the oldest. But that is not the same as overwriting the oldest.
But your surveillance software likely does have some controls over retention of space. If it supports continuous recording, it likely would have a space (or time) limit, and start overwriting the oldest video when that limit is hit.
Also, you'd want to be very thoughtful about enabling snapshots on the share used for surveillance. The snapshots could end up very large.
- deredmanJun 13, 2021InitiateThanks for your response. The DVR only supports sending videos to the NAS, not settings like overwrite.
- StephenBJun 13, 2021Guru - Experienced User
deredman wrote:
Thanks for your response. The DVR only supports sending videos to the NAS, not settings like overwrite.Is it recording continuously into one file?
Or is it sending a bunch of files over time (and you just need to delete the oldest ones every now and then)?
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