# Delaying destruction of live streams

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/delaying-destruction-of-live-streams/49104>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 3, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/delaying-destruction-of-live-streams/49104 "2017-07-03T09:36:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elizabeth\_Glover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@Elizabeth\_Glover](https://community.wowza.com/u/Elizabeth_Glover)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/delaying-destruction-of-live-streams/49104/1 "2017-07-03T09:36:46Z")

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We want to create a periscope-like live streaming platform. But also we want the users to be able to view the whole history of a given live stream rather than only the last 30 seconds, I’ve set up transcoding and nDVR which is working well viewing via HLS like [http://server:1935/live/ngrp:testStream\_all/playlist.m3u8?DVR](http://server:1935/live/ngrp:testStream_all/playlist.m3u8?DVR) . However the moment the client disconnects the live stream is removed, and the nDVR links all go away. Is there a way to delay the destruction of live streaming instances for several hours (or do it later via a REST call)? I really can’t find any references to this in the docs but I feel that this must be a very common feature…

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**Author:** ![Ashley\_Boulton-Taylo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Ashley\_Boulton-Taylo](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ashley_Boulton-Taylo)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/delaying-destruction-of-live-streams/49104/2 "2017-07-04T10:58:37Z")

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Very interesting point Elizabeth, would be also interested to find out more.

Maybe you could try to edit your app in the :8088 Manager and choose the option:

Record all incoming streams

Would be glad if that helped you.