Backup 'active_objects' files

[rajil]

I want to backup recordings which have 'active_objects'. My config is as follows:

record:
  enabled: true
  sync_recordings: false
  retain:
    days: 7
    mode: motion
  events:
    retain:
      default: 30
      mode: active_objects

I dont see separate 'active_objects' files in the filesystem.

$ ls -1
clips
exports
recordings

How do i find out recordings with active_objects? I wanted to rsync these files to another system.

[NickM-27]

There is no way to do this unless you manually use the recordings API. A better approach is using the exports API / feature

[rajil]

Is there any shell/python script using which i can identify the active_object or motion files. I can then rsync them to a remote server.

[NickM-27]

you would have to use the api, I am not aware of any existing scripts for this

[rajil]

Thanks. I wanted to do an offsite backup. Doing an rsync on the recordings folder will consume a lot of data.