The "Logs" folder is using 60% of my recording drive. Safe to remove the content?

[cyoungers]

@bnhf

Does that appeal?

Yes. I would find this useful.

[mjitkop]

+1 (since I started this thread )

[bnhf]

I'm doing some preliminary work to set this up with OliveTin, and I'd like to confirm with someone what to delete.

On my Channels DVR server, I have a folder called dvr/Logs/recording, and I'm assuming I want to delete all of the numbered directories underneath "recording" that are older than x days. It looks like each numbered folder only contains one file.

So in Bash, I'm thinking of a command like this:

find /mnt/dvr/Logs/recording -type d -mtime +7 -exec rm -r {} \;

Which should find all directories under "recording", and if they're more than 7 days old delete them and everything underneath them (recursively).

[racameron]

Just a question to the OP:

Which files in particular in the Logs directory are taking up all of the space? In each subdirectory under the comskip directory is a video.mpg file which may show as taking space (but actually isn't), but is only just a link/reference to the actual recording.

The idea that a bunch of text files are consuming 60% of your drive is ludicrous, so I thought perhaps this situation might just be a misunderstanding. (That's not to say it isn't possible, just merely improbable. If your text files are indeed consuming that much disk space, then I'll just retreat.)

[Edwin_Perez]

@racameron

In each subdirectory under the comskip directory is a video.mpg

i do not have those in windows ...

[chDVRuser]

@racameron

Just a question to the OP:

Which files in particular in the Logs directory are taking up all of the space?

It's the debug recording log files in Logs/recording
They can get quite large logging TVE and M3U recordings.

@mjitkop

Actually, the Logs/comskip folder is not much of a concern at this time because it is not taking much room compared to Logs/recording:

It's Logs/recording that is taking all the space with 6,116 folders that each contain a file called recording.log:

[mjitkop]

Exactly. My only sources in Channels are TVE and M3U.

In the early days, after first signing up with Channels, I was recording a lot of TV shows and movies in order to start building a personal video library. What I mean by "a lot" is pretty much recording 24/7 for a few months.
It didn't take long before I filled a 5 TB drive, and another one. Eventually, I bought a 22 TB drive, which should keep me going for quite a while. These days, though, my DVR is not as busy as it was in the beginning so it's more manageable.

That explains how I got in this situation.

[chDVRuser]

See Storage of recording logs for TVE recordings - #5 by eric

@eric

The good news is that you could run rm Logs/recording/*/recording.log at any point and it wouldn't cause any issues with the running of the system.

We haven't run into cases where people were recording large numbers of recordings and were space-conscious, so it hasn't been a priority for us to do more to handle this, but you bringing it up does put it back on our radar.