Feature Request - Configurable Retention By Size #9275
Description
Nearly exactly what is in #994. However, since we cannot properly collaborate- my other ticket is completely locked, and completely inaccessible to me.
The request is simple. The ability to specify a retention by total space used.
Example-
record:
# Optional: Enable recording (default: shown below)
# WARNING: If recording is disabled in the config, turning it on via
# the UI or MQTT later will have no effect.
enabled: False
# Optional: Number of minutes to wait between cleanup runs (default: shown below)
# This can be used to reduce the frequency of deleting recording segments from disk if you want to minimize i/o
expire_interval: 60
# Optional: Retention settings for recording
retain:
# Optional: Number of days to retain recordings regardless of events (default: shown below)
# NOTE: This should be set to 0 and retention should be defined in events section below
# if you only want to retain recordings of events.
days: 0
# Set maximum size of recordings.
max_size: 64G
And, making such a setting specifiable on individual cameras/events/etc.
The reason?
Because when you are only recording EVENTS, and the events occurs randomly at unknown intervals, it makes it extremely difficult to predict the amount of disk space required.
If you are recording everything, sure, you can estimate the amount of required storage, for a given number of days. However, when yo u are only interested in recording events, this is not exactly the case.