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I have frigate set to record for 7 days, but often I find my disk running out of space, and sure enough, it has 20+ days of recordings.
I have the following set in my config
record:
enabled: true
retain:
days: 7
sync_recordings: false
alerts:
retain:
days: 30
detections:
retain:
days: 30
stable moat
I have frigate set to record for 7 days, but often I find my disk running out of...
you are telling Frigate to keep segments of recordings with alerts or detections for 30 days
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It is keeping everything even those without alerts or detections
Yes, I want alerts and detections to remain for 30 days, but 24/7 recording without any events to be deleted after 7 days
stable moat
Are you sure that is the case? What are you seeing that shows that? Would be good to have an example
stable moat
yeah but that is within 7 days ago
remember that the file system is in UTC
show two weeks ago, that will be a more clear test on what is actually beeing seen
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Unfortunately I just cleaned up as I was running out of disk space again, so that included everything including 5/25/2025. So I guess i'll have to wait until tomorrow
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Of course, now it is working, but I clearly had to delete 2 weeks worth of data on 6/1/2025. I'll monitor and ping here when I see it again.
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@stable moat this is what I see that suggests it is not cleaning up. all directories for every day are nearly the same size. There are very few events per day.
stable moat
Are they still in the database?
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How do I check that? I haven't restarted frigate at all since the start of this conversation
stable moat
could download and save /api/{camera}/recordings/summary and post that here so we can see
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can you confirm that url? my camera name is front_porch
stable moat
sorry, updated
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stable moat
you'll need to put in a pastebin and share
looks like those days are in the API though
which means Frigate knows about them, and they are being retained for a reason
what version of Frigate are you running by the way?
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System
0.15.0-6cb5cfb
stable moat
You could try enabling debug logs for frigate.record.cleanup
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I did, does this process run at a specific time, I don't see anything in there yet
