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vfs_format.exe is a console utility for working with Axxon One archives.
Attention!
For correct operation of the application, 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 options:
Parameter | Description |
| --help | Help window |
| --volume | Archive 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 | Populating 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 | Copying an archive to RAM and further copying to a destination archive. Use with the --fill parameter. This parameter is valid only for archives that could fit to RAM. For instance, 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 sectors. By default, the size of one sector is 4MB, if the -format parameter was not applied. This option 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 option is relevant only for the archive volume as a file. For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --size 4096 |
| --format | Split the volume of the archive into sectors of the specified size (in megabytes). For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --format 16 |
| --copy | Copying archive volumes. Specify the path and name of the new archive file. If the archive volume is copied as a disk, create a partition, large enough. 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 sectors 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 for an archive volume (including timeline markers and video footage size per channel). For example, vfs-format.exe --volume D:\ --build-meta Important! Processing large archives may take significant amounts of time |
| --clear-meta | Deleting metadata of archive volume. For example, vfs-format.exe --volume D:\ --clear-meta |
| --log-level | Sets the logging level for this action. Available values:
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To log error messages, you must 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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