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

Note
titleAttention!

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).

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Note
titleAttention!

Run the command line as Administrator.


Info
titleNote

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
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

instance, vfs

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

sectors

blocks. 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

volumes

volume. Specify the path and name of the new archive file. If the archive volume is copied as a disk, create a partition

, large enough

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

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

Important
Note
titleAttention!

Processing large archives may take significant

amounts

amount of time.


--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:

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

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

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