ZONEMINDER

This is a simple debian image with the ZoneMinder installed following the official "Debian 10 Buster with Zoneminder 1.34.x from the ZM Release-1.34 Repo" instructions. Because of the ssmtp deprecation the mail server installed is msmtp and a default configuration file prepared for GMail will be created in /config/msmtprc. Furthermore the image is prepared for working with SWAG(let's encrypt) image or there is an environment for the self-signed certificate option.

Image available at https://hub.docker.com/r/nardo86/docker

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Tested on my Raspberry Pi 4 with SWAG

USAGE

Just run the image publishing the port and setting the ENV variables, the shm dedicated and mounting the folder you wish to map.

docker run -d \

--name=ZoneMinder \

-p 443:443/tcp \

-e TZ=Europe/Rome \

-e SELFSIGNED=0 \

-e FQDN=your.fqdn \

--shm-size=1.5g \

-v /mystorage/ZoneMinder/config:/config \

-v /mystorage/ZoneMinder/zmcache:/var/cache/zoneminder \

-v /mystorage/Swag/etc/letsencrypt/live:/sslcert/live \

-v /mystorage/Swag/etc/letsencrypt/archive:/sslcert/archive \

--restart unless-stopped \

nardo86/zoneminder

The SELFSIGNED flag will , the FQDN will be used for configuring Apache2 and, in case of using the SWAG certificate, find the correct folder and the /config folder will contain msmtp and mysql configuration.

The shm-size will be the quantity of RAM dedicated to /dev/shm.* be sure to not reserve too much RAM to this machine or the docker server wil start to paging and eventually becoming unresponsible

To access the Zoneminder gui, browse to: https://your.fqdn:443/zm

If you need to transfer your data from another instance this method worked for me https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=17071:

Backup the old DB

root@oldSystem# mysqldump -p zm > /config/zm-dbbackup.sql

Restore into the new DB

root@newSystem# mysql -p zm < /config/zm-dbbackup.sql

Sync folders

root@newSystem# rsync -r -t -p -o -g -v --progress --delete user@oldSystem:/var/cache/zoneminder/* /var/cache/zoneminder/

Init / cleanup

root@newSystem# zmaudit.pl

EXTRA OPTIONS

Environment variable used for the configuration

Variable	Description	Default
SELFSIGNED	switch between using a self-signed certificate and the one in sslcert/live folder	0
FQDN	the FQDN Apache2 will be listening to, sslcert/live subfolder if SELFSIGNED is 0	localhost