Carlson 0 Posted April 17, 2011 My client, an eccentric type has 16 cameras throughout his property. Yesterdays time frame captured footage that he'd like not to be revisisted, especially by his employees who have access to his system though it was captured on his own cameras. Knowing that these rerecord every three months. How should he, without deleting the previous 3 months, either re-record yesterday or delete that time frame. A little help ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
3RDIGLBL 0 Posted April 17, 2011 First off " title="Applause" /> There got that out of the way. The DVR's I have had had experience with do not always like to have the date messed with and some actually state a format is required upon changing the date. First I would remove the accounts that have access to the DVR and if anyone says anything come up with some excuse. Second I would explain to the customer what you are going to attempt to do may delete all the recording on his DVR and to back up anything he want to keep before you attempt it. Third I would try to change the date back to the day you want to record over and hope that over writing the index files created by the DVR for the date wanted actually works. Hopefully you will over write that date. You could try setting the time to just before the event and if it was 10 minutes long let the DVR over write for 10 minutes. I would make sure motion is in that area for the duration to be sure that the camera that saw what it was not supposed to see is recording or turn on continuos record for those cameras. Easiest possible way is if this is an embedded DVR just remove the existing Hard Drive and replace it with a new Hard Drive and if it's a PC and the data drive is a separate drive just do the same. You still have the previous three months and if anyone says something tell them the hard drive went bad and it had to be replaced. Your client will still have the previous 3 months. Once 3 months has gone by with no incident format the drive and now you have a spare! As you can see there is no simple silver bullet to fix this snafu at least that I know of. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carlson 0 Posted April 23, 2011 Right . . . Thanks for your explanation. It's about what I expected. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeromephone 6 Posted April 24, 2011 If this is geo you can delete indivadual cameras dates without getting rrid of the other footage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
