Cleanup fails 3.1.13

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Disk cleanup seems to fail after updating to server 3.1.13 and fills storage disk

Aug 13 00:13:02 cottage bc-server[3990501]: E(4/cam4): No free storage locations for new recordings!
Aug 13 00:13:02 cottage bc-server[3990501]: E(4/cam4): Cannot start recording!
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): Storage path /home/budg/NVR needs cleanup: 100.0% > 94.0%
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): Storage path /home/budg/NVR requires cleanup: 100.0% >= 94.0%
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): Storage path /home/budg/NVR needs cleanup: 100.0% > 94.0%
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): Starting optimized cleanup process
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): Initial storage usage: 100.0%
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): Target storage threshold: 93.0%
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): Processing batch of 176 files
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): No more files to delete, stopping cleanup
Aug 13 00:13:04 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): No files needed to be deleted
Aug 13 00:13:05 cottage bc-server[3990501]: I(): Optimized cleanup completed successfully
Aug 13 00:13:05 cottage bc-server[3990501]: E(1/cam1): No free storage locations for new recordings!

any ideas?

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I had the same symptoms when my recording file storage on the disk became out of sync with the files the database expected to be there. When that happened I got the same symptoms in the log and my disk filled. I resolved it by deleting any recordings I didn’t want then used the following mysql command to purge the database records for the physically deleted files:

I use the commands:
mysql bluecherry
delete from Media where filepath like ‘/var/lib/bluecherry/recordings/2025/0x/yy%’;

After that was done, bluecherrydvr was properly managing disk space.

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Missed the line where 0x is the month and yy is the day. If you want to clear out all file handles for a specific date you can just move the % up further in the string and drop the other match characters. you still need the ‘;’ after the % to close the mysql command.

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Which distribution are you using? Are you willing to test the latest beta release?

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Thanks ecalp_smot deleting the entries in the Media DB seems to have fixed the issue.

Curtis im runing debian bullseye, im more than happy to test the beta

Thanks Anthony

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You can try this package:

http://lizard.bluecherry.net/~curt/releases/3.1.14/1c4c91209a99747536e9787c653795696de323b1/bullseye/bluecherry_3.1.14_amd64.deb