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Anonymous
March 30, 2010
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Storage for my FMS

  • March 30, 2010
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I am running FMS 3.5.2 on Windows Server 2008.  The server only has 40GB free.  Is it possible to store media on an external drive connected to the FMS?  Then have my http or rtmp requests go to the external.  Am I making sense?  I'm sure there is a script to accomplish this, but I am afraid it will degrade the media files.

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    Anonymous
    March 31, 2010

    Is the storage server in the same local network as the FMS server? If so, you can set up the storage drive as a network share, i.e. you can map it to say z drive, and then configure that drive (or a directrory on that drive) as a virtual directory in FMS. Use the tag <VirtualDirectory> in application.xml for this purpose. This will not degrade the media files.

    Let's say you mapped the network drive to z: drive and want to use media directory to store your streams then in Application.xml

    use

    <VirtualDirectory>z:\streams</VirtualDirectory>

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    Anonymous
    March 31, 2010

    I wes considering connecting an external drive (Maxtor 250GB) to the back of the FMS. I would then store all of the media files on the external drive.

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    Anonymous
    April 1, 2010

    Even if you are using any external drive it will be mounted as a disk on your server. You can give the path to this drive as your virtual directory.

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