Blue Iris

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2024-02-23T18:39:49+00:00

Looking at the allocation graphs is a good starting point. Note if you have "New" and "Stored" on the same drive you are wasting resources and IAmATeaf will admonish you

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:39 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2024-02-23T17:37:39+00:00

Under Blue Iris Setting; Storage; select each and check; New, Stored, Alerts, and any other you may have set up and see how much space you have allocated for each next to GB. Add those figures together and total should add up to < total space on hard drive. e.g. 300gb hdd, New folder = 100gb, Stored = 150gb, Alerts 10gb. This will get rid of that over allocated message.

Statistics: Posted by MrBloo — Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:37 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-12-13T17:01:51+00:00

Use your imagination.

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:01 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-12-13T16:57:07+00:00

So we can't blame Reolink for this one

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:57 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-12-13T16:43:20+00:00

Good catch and an excellent point.

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:43 pm

Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-12-13T13:18:43+00:00

Is BI not supposed to take care of this automatically? That's why we set usage limits.
I have the same issue, and I am now having "DRIVE(S) OVERALLOCATED!" errors.
I am a new user with a new install.

This is on a 4TB drive G: with almost 200GB Free, and I am limiting its usage to 3800.

It's very odd. Any suggestions?
Already done the rebuild/repair/etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

With a 4TB drive you’ll only get around 3.6/3.7Tb usable space so maybe you have actually over allocated?

Statistics: Posted by IAmATeaf — Wed Dec 13, 2023 1:18 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-12-13T11:56:26+00:00

Is BI not supposed to take care of this automatically? That's why we set usage limits.
I have the same issue, and I am now having "DRIVE(S) OVERALLOCATED!" errors.
I am a new user with a new install.

This is on a 4TB drive G: with almost 200GB Free, and I am limiting its usage to 3800.

It's very odd. Any suggestions?
Already done the rebuild/repair/etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

Statistics: Posted by mpoczynek — Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:56 am

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-09-18T13:36:45+00:00

Just send me a cheque for $1,000,000

This was a good example of an issue that has likely been around for a long time. There will be a specific set of circumstances that trigger this. Ken was able to find the problem with me running a test version of software, and sending lots of Log files.

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:36 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-09-18T12:35:20+00:00

So where do I sign up for all these latest stable releases again? LOL

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:35 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-09-18T06:34:18+00:00

Thanks and confirmed. Update to that version has resolved the issue. No issues in the last 12 hours. File movement and space reallocation all working as expected.

Statistics: Posted by brumster — Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:34 am

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-09-17T18:56:01+00:00

See my post here. I think this is fixed in v5.7.9.12, and it has probably been causing issues for quite a few versions.

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:56 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-09-17T17:09:05+00:00

Same issue here.

I've just upgraded to 5.7.9.12.

I have some decent monitoring on the free space so should be able to see quickly if it resolves the issue.

Statistics: Posted by brumster — Sun Sep 17, 2023 5:09 pm

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-09-02T09:21:05+00:00

In addition, we were just notified that BI lost the config of 2 cameras and it appears that at least 1 camera config was placed onto another camera. Could DB corruption cause that?

DB corruption is usually just errors rather than moving data elsewhere. Just wondering - have you exempted the BI5 folders from anti-virus scan as detailed in the Help file ? (Search for "SECURITY SOFTWARE EXEMPTIONS."). And do you have the Log file writing to a text file ? It only makes one file per month, and it may show something when it attempts to move files. It's much better than the standard Log, as that amalgamates similar errors rather than leaving them in time related positions.

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Sat Sep 02, 2023 9:21 am

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-09-02T04:21:44+00:00

A couple of questions:

How much space have you allocated to "Alerts" and what happens when that is full ? I didn't see a screen shot for that.
Of the used space on Drives D and the NAS, how much of this is the "Blue Iris" folder and files within?

Statistics: Posted by Rantech — Sat Sep 02, 2023 4:21 am

Re: Constant Overallocated Storage

2023-08-31T15:10:53+00:00

I've moved the DB to the 3TB and performed another repair. I also found one camera had 5 months of videos still in the New folder and never rotated over. I've moved that video footage out. It's fine now but I don't want to keep doing this every few weeks.

Statistics: Posted by stewart — Thu Aug 31, 2023 3:10 pm