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==== 5.6 frigate camera footage storage ====

Earlier in the guide, we set up '''frigate''' for recording security camera footage. We left it recording to the frigate installation folder. '''This is bad. Recording to the main solid state drive is a waste of space &amp; SSD life.'''

Archived camera footage belongs on a giant hard drive, not an expensive SSD. If you’d like, you can now go back to the frigate config section and change these two lines:

<pre>      - ./storage:/media/frigate
      - ./database:/data/db</pre>
to something like:

<pre>      - ./storage:/mediapool/archive/camerafootage/media/frigate
      - ./database:/mediapool/archive/camerafootage/data/db</pre>
Of course, make the directories first:

<pre>mkdir -p /mediapool/archive/camerafootage/data/db
mkdir -p /mediapool/archive/camerafootage/media/frigate</pre>
If you want to keep things separate, you could create a third dataset called <code>camerafootage</code>, mount it to <code>/mediapool/camerafootage</code>, and then edit the <code>docker-compose.yml</code> file to look like this:

<pre>      - ./storage:/mediapool/camerafootage/media/frigate
      - ./database:/mediapool/camerafootage/data/db</pre>
And make sure the directories have been created before running frigate:

<pre>mkdir -p /mediapool/camerafootage/data/db
mkdir -p /mediapool/camerafootage/media/frigate</pre>
The full file is provided below, with the assumption that you decided to make a <code>camerafootage</code> dataset that is mounted on <code>/mediapool/camerafootage</code>

<pre>version: &quot;3.9&quot;
services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    privileged: true # This may not be necessary for all setups
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.13.2 # Last good version
    shm_size: &quot;64mb&quot; # Update for your cameras based on requirements
    devices:
      - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb # USB Coral, modify for other hardware
      - /dev/apex_0:/dev/apex_0 # PCIe Coral, modify based on your setup
      - /dev/video11:/dev/video11 # For Raspberry Pi 4B
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128 # Intel hwaccel, update for your hardware
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./config:/config
      - ./storage:/mediapool/camerafootage/media/frigate # Changed media directory to ZFS pool
      - ./database:/mediapool/camerafootage/data/db # Changed database directory to ZFS pool
      - type: tmpfs # Optional: Reduces SSD wear
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - &quot;8971:8971&quot;
      - &quot;5000:5000&quot; # Internal unauthenticated access. Be careful with exposure.
      - &quot;8554:8554&quot; # RTSP feeds
      - &quot;8555:8555/tcp&quot; # WebRTC over TCP
      - &quot;8555:8555/udp&quot; # WebRTC over UDP
    environment:
      FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD: &quot;password&quot;</pre>
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