Additional Storage Locations for Channels DVR Recordings

[sandor]

I record to an internal SSD & then weekly use rsync to move new recordings to my second location - an external drive.

Both storage paths are in the Channels settings, no need for symlinks.

I could have the scheduled rsync happen @ any point in time - hourly, daily, weekly, etc.

[Mikchek]

does this still work?

[chDVRuser]

Does what still work?
You can add Additional Storage Locations from the DVR web UI now.
Click the + next to Storage Paths

It will then let you use a directory picker

Choose an additional storage directory for recordings

If your main DVR drive is filling up, you can move existing recording folders over to a new drive and add that as an additional storage path.

Note that new recordings will still be created on the primary DVR storage drive. Old recordings can be manually moved over, and will automatically play from the secondary drive if the video is not found on the main drive.

[EddieRock]

I added my second drive but the app doesn't show it. It looks fine in the web ui.

Is this a bug?

Ed

[Edwin_Perez]

You will not see additional storage as it will not use it for recording. You have to move recordings to it.

Automated task to store recording local until finished

Sample Will Check DVR every 5 minutes TIMEOUT /T 300 can be changed. CD /d "%~dp0" set DVRSTATUS=2 :loop if %DVRSTATUS% EQU 1 TIMEOUT /T 300 curl.exe "http://10.0.0.144:8089/dvr"|findstr /I /C:"busy\":false" set DVRSTATUS=%ERRORLEVEL% if %DVRSTATUS% EQU 1 goto loop if %DVRSTATUS% EQU 0 ROBOCOPY "D:\ChannelsDVR\TV\Charmed" "\\WDMYCLOUDDL2100\ChannelsDVR2\TV\Charmed" /move /COPY:DT /minage:0 /e /R:2 /W:2 exit

[James_Marion]

I would like to add additional drives to my raspberry pi server. Could I just put a USB hub on the pi? What else would I need to do?

[DogfaceMan]

I am using a powered hub with two USB drives. Works well for me.

[MNChannels1]

If I had previously set up an additional storage location and then replaced my primary location with a much larger drive, can I just move all the files from my secondary location back to the corresponding folders on the new primary location and eliminate the secondary storage location? I’d like to free up a slot in my drive enclosure.

Thanks

[racameron]

@MNChannels1

If I had previously set up an additional storage location and then replaced my primary location with a much larger drive, can I just move all the files from my secondary location back to the corresponding folders on the new primary location and eliminate the secondary storage location?

Yes, that is correct.

[MNChannels1]

Thank you!,