solved -- unable to record continuously; also reboots by itself

[h2020]

Solved: The problem went away after trying a different FTP server. I guess the original FTP server disconnected after some timeout and caused the camera to get confused...

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Please help me figure out why my IPM-721B is unable to record continuously (e.g. for 10 hours in 1 hour chunks) but instead it records small chunks of 1-2 minutes only for sporadic duration.

I have a schedule for everyday, 8:15 AM to 9:15 PM, for general recording (not motion-detect or alert) to write to an FTP server.

I've set the pack size to 60 minutes.

The result is like this... about 1 minute here, and another minute there, but not a continuous 60 minute chunk.

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
----- 2/13/2017 9:25 AM 1816299 17.14.40-17.16.06[R][0@0][0].mp4
----- 2/13/2017 9:39 AM 1694386 17.29.24-17.30.50[R][0@0][0].mp4
----- 2/13/2017 9:54 AM 2160848 17.44.04-17.45.30[R][0@0][0].mp4
----- 2/13/2017 9:57 AM 1713468 17.58.45-17.59.23[R][0@0][0].mp4
----- 2/13/2017 10:10 AM 1912083 17.59.46-18.01.11[R][0@0][0].mp4

(also see screenshot of the FTP directory below)

In the schedule, I only have general recording. No motion-detect or alert. So what's going on here?

Also, the camera seems to spontaneously reboot all by itself throughout the day, just randomly. I can tell because all of a sudden it rotates to the back and forth (like it does when you power it on)