Bruce, -F db dumps all flows on disk and thus it can quickly exhaust your storage. i suggest you to write data externally (e.g. -F es...) in ElasticSearch and let ES implement your retention policy
Cheers Luca On 02/18/2015 12:04 AM, Bruce Griffis wrote: > Someone provided great instructions for installing NTOPNG 1.2 on > Ubuntu, so I upgraded my 1.1 to the current release (thank you!). I > enabled saving historic flows (-F option). I noticed that it is eating > up a LOT of space, and of course it is - since storing flows for all > traffic on my home LAN is a lot - with some 23 active devices (and a > few lower use devices). > > Does ntopng re-use database storage when it starts hitting storage > constraints? Is there a utility to just keep the previous X number of > days and delete the rest? My storage utilization was less than 1% when > I first started storing flows. Now I am at 12% in just 2 days or so. > What happens when I start bumping up against storage constraints on my > harddrive? > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
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