# Wowza DVR: preventing corruption and overwriting

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-dvr-preventing-corruption-and-overwriting/550>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 1, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-dvr-preventing-corruption-and-overwriting/550 "2012-05-01T13:00:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruud\_van\_der\_Linden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a4c791/32.png) [@Ruud\_van\_der\_Linden](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ruud_van_der_Linden)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:53am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-dvr-preventing-corruption-and-overwriting/550/15 "2012-05-14T08:53:54Z")

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Yes, of course. I just double-checked and I did.

Also shouldn’t it cycle files instead of just saying “Maximum recording length of 108000 seconds exceeded. Recording stopped.” ?

I don’t understand why this part of DVR (cycling or not cycling files) is so sparsely documented and why stopping would be default behavior.

Also see my post in another topic about cycling files:

> [@nDVR do not purge old files](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/38088):
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> We are running Wowza 3.1.0 build1410 on Win Server 2008 with following settings: 86400 append We expect that all recorded files older than 1 day will be automatically deleted, however they’re not Any suggestons? Wrong settings?

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