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@ -17,6 +17,61 @@ Frigate runs best with docker installed on bare metal debian-based distributions
Windows is not officially supported, but some users have had success getting it to run under WSL or Virtualbox. Getting the GPU and/or Coral devices properly passed to Frigate may be difficult or impossible. Search previous discussions or issues for help. Windows is not officially supported, but some users have had success getting it to run under WSL or Virtualbox. Getting the GPU and/or Coral devices properly passed to Frigate may be difficult or impossible. Search previous discussions or issues for help.
### Storage
Frigate uses the following locations for read/write operations in the container. Docker volume mappings can be used to map these to any location on your host machine.
- `/media/frigate/clips`: Used for snapshot storage. In the future, it will likely be renamed from `clips` to `snapshots`. The file structure here cannot be modified and isn't intended to be browsed or managed manually.
- `/media/frigate/recordings`: Internal system storage for recording segments. The file structure here cannot be modified and isn't intended to be browsed or managed manually.
- `/media/frigate/frigate.db`: Default location for the sqlite database. You will also see several files alongside this file while frigate is running. If moving the database location (often needed when using a network drive at `/media/frigate`), it is recommended to mount a volume with docker at `/db` and change the storage location of the database to `/db/frigate.db` in the config file.
- `/tmp/cache`: Cache location for recording segments. Initial recordings are written here before being checked and converted to mp4 and moved to the recordings folder.
- `/dev/shm`: It is not recommended to modify this directory or map it with docker. This is the location for raw decoded frames in shared memory and it's size is impacted by the `shm-size` calculations below.
- `/config/config.yml`: Default location of the config file.
#### Common docker compose storage configurations
Writing to a local disk or external USB drive:
```yaml
version: "3.9"
services:
frigate:
...
volumes:
- /path/to/your/config.yml:/config/config.yml:ro
- /path/to/your/storage:/media/frigate
- type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
target: /tmp/cache
tmpfs:
size: 1000000000
...
```
Writing to a network drive with database on a local drive:
```yaml
version: "3.9"
services:
frigate:
...
volumes:
- /path/to/your/config.yml:/config/config.yml:ro
- /path/to/network/storage:/media/frigate
- /path/to/local/disk:/db
- type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
target: /tmp/cache
tmpfs:
size: 1000000000
...
```
frigate.yml
```yaml
database:
path: /db/frigate.db
```
### Calculating required shm-size ### Calculating required shm-size
Frigate utilizes shared memory to store frames during processing. The default `shm-size` provided by Docker is 64m. Frigate utilizes shared memory to store frames during processing. The default `shm-size` provided by Docker is 64m.