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vfs_format.exe is a console utility for working with Axxon One archives.
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For the correct operation of the applicationutility, 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 > folder>\bin>.
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Run the command line as Administrator. |
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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
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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
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| --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:
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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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