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vfs_format.exe is a console utility for working with Axxon Next archives.
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For the correct operation of the applicationutility, you have to remove the corresponding archive volume in Axxon Next without removing the archive files (see Deleting and formatting archive volumes). |
The utility is located in <Axxon Next installation folder > \bin>.
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Run the command line as Administrator. |
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The utility contains the following optionsparameters:
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| --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 | Populating 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 . 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 Copy an archive to RAM and further copying 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 | |||||
| --dump-meta | Collect service information about the archive volume metadata in a TXT file. For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --dump-meta C:\DumpMetaArc.txt | |||||
| --dump-fullness | Collect service information about the archive fullness in a TXT file. For example: vfs_format.exe --volume C:\archiveAliceBlue.afs --dump-fullness C:\DumpFullnessArc.txt | |||||
| --expand | Specify the new size of the archive volume in sectorsblocks. By default, the size of one sector block is 4MB, if the --format parameter was not applied. This option 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 option 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 of the archive into sectors blocks of the specified size (in megabytes). For example: vfs_format.exe --volume D:\archiveAntiqueWhite.afs --format 16 | |||||
| --copy | Copying Copy archive volumesvolume. Specify the path and name of the new archive file. If the archive volume is copied as a disk, create a partition , large enoughwithout 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 sectors 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 for of an archive volume (including timeline markers and video footage size per channel). For example: vfs-format.exe --volume D:\ --build-meta
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| --clear-meta | Deleting Delete metadata of archive 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 | Sets Set the logging level for this action. Available values:
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--channel | Specify the archive channel. For example: vfs_format.exe --volume=Q:/archiveAliceBlue.afs --channel=E7C79FA3-E0D4-B6CD-9307-6C24E96C305E You can forced mask the blocks for certain archive channels.
For example: vfs_format.exe --volume=Q:/archiveAliceBlue.afs --channel=E7C79FA3-E0D4-B6CD-9307-6C24E96C305E --clear-from=20350101T000000 --clear-to=20370101T000000, where --clear-from − start interval in the YYYYMMDDThhmmss format, | |||||
| --recover | Recover the last recording layer after formatting the archive. This parameter is relevant only if there were records after the last formatting. For example: vfs_format.exe --volume E:\ --recover | |||||
| --recover=2 | Recover the last recording layer after formatting the archive. For example: vfs_format.exe --volume E:\ --recover=2 after the archive formatting, or vfs_format.exe --volume E:\archiveAliceBlue.afs --recover=2 after the disk formatting |
To log error messages, you must 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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