Documentation for Axxon One 1.0.

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vfs_format.exe is a console utility for working with Axxon One archives.

Attention!

For the correct operation of the utility, you have to remove the corresponding archive volume in Axxon One without removing the archive files (see Deleting and formatting archive volumes).

The utility is located in <Axxon One installation folder>\bin>. 

Attention!

Run the command line as Administrator.

Note

To launch the utility on Linux OS, run the following command:

ngprun start_app vfs_tools + arguments.

To open the argument list, run the vfs_tools --help command.

The utility contains the following parameters:

Parameter

Description

--help

Help window

--volume

Archive volume path. The basic parameter must always be present in the query.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs (for the archive volume as a file) or vfs_format.exe --volume D:\ (for the archive volume as a disk).

--fill

Populate an archive with multiple copies of video footage from another archive.

The system fills up a destination archive with multiple copies of a source archive. For easier timeline handling, each new copy is written with 1 minute offset. 

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume S:\FILEONE.afs --fill G:\ 

--cache-to-memory

Copy an archive to RAM and further copy to a destination archive. Use with the --fill parameter.

This parameter is valid only for archives that could fit to RAM.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume S:\FILEONE.afs --fill G:\ --cache-to-memory

--dump

Collect service information about the archive volume in a TXT or XML file.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --dump C:\DumpArc.txt

--expand

Specify the new size of the archive volume in blocks. By default, the size of one block is 4MB, if the --format parameter was not applied. This parameter is relevant only for the archive volume as a file.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --expand 128

--size

Specify the new size of the archive volume in megabytes. This parameter is relevant only for the archive volume as a file.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --size 4096

--format

Split the archive volume into blocks of the specified size (in megabytes).

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --format 16

--copy

Copy archive volume. Specify the path and name of the new archive file. If the archive volume is copied as a disk, create a partition without formatting, larger than the copied volume. If you have a smaller partition, then only the most recent entries are copied.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --copy C:\NewArc.afs

--skip-bad-block 

Skip the bad blocks when copying the archive volume. This parameter is used only together with --copy.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAliceBlue.afs --copy C:\NewArc.afs --skip-bad-block

--modify-corrupted-flag 

Enable/disable re-indexing of the archive volume. 1 – enable reindexing, 0 – disable.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAliceBlue.afs --modify-corrupted-flag 1

--build-meta

Launch the process of metadata generation of an archive volume (including timeline markers and video footage size per channel).

For example: vfs-format.exe --volume D:\ --build-meta

Attention!

Processing large archives may take significant amount of time.

--clear-meta

Delete metadata of the archive volume.

For example: vfs-format.exe --volume D:\ --clear-meta

--clear-data

Delete the archive volume service information (does not operate without the from and to arguments).

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume C:\archiveAliceBlue.afs --clear-data --from 20220210T110000 --to 20220210T114000.

--from and --to are used to set the UTC time intervals in the ISO YYYYMMDDThhmmss format.

Then you should confirm the deletion.

--log-level

Set the logging level for this action. Available values:

  • 0 – OFF
  • 10 – ERROR
  • 20 – WARN
  • 40 – INFO
  • 50 – DEBUG
  • 60 – TRACE
  • 100 – ALL

To log error messages, you should add a path for the log file at the end of each query.

For example: vfs_format.exe --volume S:\FILEONE.afs --fill G:\ --log-level=100 > S:\log.txt.

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