Storage issues

[nerdhaze]

Greetings,
I'm new to using Docker for things, so I'm out of my element on this one. I have BirdNET-Go running in Docker, but I think I'm running out of storage. My local drive has tons of data, and I've allocated lots of storage to Docker itself, like 500GB. At the same time detections will stop regularly, and I'm seeing these messages if I monitor the logs:

When I restart it, it looks like this, but it's basically starts telling me disk utilization is at 98%.

[+] Running 2/2
• Container birdnet-go
Removed

• Network birdnet-go-app_default
  Removed
  [+] Running 2/2
  • Network birdnet-go-app_default Created
  • Container birdnet-go
  Started
  mike@maccylinder birdnet-go-app % docker logs birdnet-go -f
  Starting BirdNET-Go with UID:1000, GID:1000
  Creating group birdnet with GID 1000
  Adding group 'birdnet' (GID 1000)
  0.2s
  0.2s
  0.1s
  0.3s
  Creating user birdnet with UID 1000
  Adding user 'birdnet'
  Adding new user "birdnet' (1000) with group 'birdnet (1000)' ...
  Creating home directory
  '/home/birdnet'
  Copying files from '/etc/skel'
  Adding new user 'birdnet' to supplemental / extra groups
  Adding user 'birdnet' to group
  Starting BirdNET-Go as user birdnet (1000:1000)
  025-05-23T00:32:42Z),
  using config file: /home/birdnet/.config/birdnet-go/config.yaml
  INFO: Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU.
  BirdNET GLOBAL 6K V2.4 FP32 model initialized, using 16 threads of available 16 CPUs 2025/05/26 18:30:35 Cleaned up leftover HLS streaming files
  System details: linux debian 12.11 on unknown hardware
  Starting analyzer in realtime mode. Threshold: 0.3, overlap: 1.5, sensitivity: 0.7, interval: 15
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 WARN: Unsupported database type 'SQLite' for image_caches schema check. Assuming schema is correct.
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Using global image provider registry
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Registered WikiMedia image provider
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Attempting to register AviCommons provider...
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Successfully registered AviCommons image provider
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Using WikiMedia as the default image provider (auto mode)
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Starting background image cache warm-up...
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Pre-fetched 53 cached image records for provider 'avicommons'
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Pre-fetched 0 cached image records for provider 'wikimedia'
  2025/05/26 18:30:35
  Job queue started with
  max capacity of 1000 jobs
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Cache warm-up: 24 species require image fetching.
  Logging disabled
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Configured custom IP extractor prioritizing CF-Connecting-IP
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Resolved relative media export path "clips/" to absolute path "/data/clips"
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 API structured logging initialized to logs/web.log
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Initialized API authentication
  service and middleware function
  HTTP server started on port 8080 (AutoTLS: false)
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Clip retention policy: age
  2025/05/26 18:30:35 Starting FFmpeg with command: /usr/bin/ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tep -i rtsp://Xt93q850sr1DJjLi:[email protected]/1ive0 -loglevel error
  -vn -f s16le -ar 48000 -ac 1 -hide_banner pipe:1
  2025/05/26 18:30:35
  FEmpeg started successfully for RTSP source rtsp://Xt93q850sr1DJjLi:Qx3FbpHgJLAuPyQFQ192.168.6.13/live0
• http server started on [::]:8080
  2025/05/26 18:30:36 ≤ Active audio broadcast callbacks: []
  2025/05/26 18:30:36
  ANo broadcast callback registered for source: rtsp://Xt93q850sr1DJjLi:[email protected]/live0,
  data length: 12192 bytes
  2025/05/26 18:30:39 Finished initializing
  BirdImageCache (24 species fetched/attempted)
  2025/05/26 18:30:45 Retrieved 10 detections in

What am I doing wrong?

[tphakala]

Please provide more information, how did you install BirdNET-Go? How does your container start command look like?

But in general, BirdNET-Go data should reside outside of container so that when you upgrade container your data would not be wiped out. When you install BirdNET-Go using install.sh as descriebed on repository readme page it will store data correctly outside of container.

[nerdhaze]

After reading your reply, I decided to just start over. I've only had it running for a few days, and that seemed easier than trying to troubleshoot it. The last time I did the install I configured it several different ways trying to find the right configuration for my host machine, so I likely twisted some things up. This time I've basically followed the Docker Compose Guide, https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go/wiki/docker_compose_guide.md. So far, all is well. I'm going to close this question now, and will start a new one if I see any strange behavior with this configuration.

Thanks for the quick reply!