# Recording long sessions recomendations

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/recording-long-sessions-recomendations/47932>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 21, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/recording-long-sessions-recomendations/47932 "2017-02-21T11:51:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Josh\_Sawyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Josh\_Sawyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Josh_Sawyer)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/recording-long-sessions-recomendations/47932/1 "2017-02-21T11:51:30Z")

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When we first started doing shows they were roughly 2 to 3 hours long and we never had an issue recording them during the live stream. Right after we were done we could post them for VOD playback. We have a new client and they stream for 12 to 14 hours. The file gets large ( 5 to 6GB ) 60% of the time there stream can not be played as the file is corrupt. I am looking for any suggestions to improve this condition. Is there a way to have Wowza save the stream as a different name when the file size reaches 2GB. My thought is I would then combine the streams with FFmpeg or a similar tool.

TIA

Josh

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**Author:** ![Alex\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Alex\_C](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_C)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/recording-long-sessions-recomendations/47932/2 "2017-02-26T01:57:20Z")

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Hello Josh,

There are ways you can segment your recordings in the Stream Recorder. You can get more info about Recording Streams from the following article:

How to record live streams (Wowza Streaming Engine)

Regards,

Alex