Name

Rename the storage if needed. Names must be unique.

Path

Specify the path to the directory to which you save recordings in this storage. The storage does not necessarily have to be located on the recording server computer.

If the directory does not exist, you can create it. Network drives must be specified by using UNC (Universal Naming Convention) format, example: \\ server\volume\directory\.

Retention time

Specify for how long recordings should stay in the archive before they are deleted or moved to the next archive (depending on archive settings).

The retention time must always be longer than the retention time of the previous archive or the default recording database. This is because the number of retention days specified for an archive includes all the retention periods stated earlier in the process.

Maximum size

Select the maximum number of gigabytes of recording data to save in the recording database.

Recording data in excess of the specified number of gigabytes is auto-moved to the first archive in the list - if any is specified - or deleted.

Important: When less than 5GB of space is free, the system always auto-archives (or deletes if no next archive is defined) the oldest data in a database. If less than 1GB space is free, data is deleted. A database always requires 250MB of free space. If you reach this limit (if data is not deleted fast enough), no more data is written to the database until you have freed enough space. The actual maximum size of your database is the amount of gigabytes you specify, minus 5GB.

Schedule

Specify an archiving schedule that outlines the intervals with which the archiving process should start. You can archive very frequently (in principle every hour all year round), or very infrequently (for example, every first Monday of every 36 months).

Reduce frame rate

To reduce FPS when archiving, select the Reduce frame rate check box and set a frame per second (FPS).

Reduction of frame rates by a selected number of FPS makes your recordings take up less space in the archive, but it also reduces the quality of your archive.
MPEG-4/H.264/H.265 reduces automatically to key-frames as a minimum.

0.1 = 1 frame per 10 seconds.