Configure storage: Recording and archiving settings

Select recording and archiving paths for each individual camera.

You can edit all properties on a white background. you cannot edit properties on a light blue background.

Name

Description

Recording Path

Path to the folder in which the camera's database should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase. To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the required cell. You can only specify a path to a folder on a local drive. You cannot specify a path to a network drive. If you use a network drive, you cannot save recordings if the network drive becomes unavailable.

If you change the recording path, and you have existing recordings at the old location, you are asked whether you want to move the recordings to the new location, leave them at the old location, or delete them.

If you have several cameras, and several local drives are available, you can improve performance by distributing individual cameras' databases across several drives.

Archiving Path

Only editable if not using dynamic paths for archiving. Path to the folder in which the camera's archived recordings should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase.

To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the relevant cell. If you change the archiving path, and there are existing archived recordings at the old location, you are asked whether you want to move the archived recordings to the new location (recommended), leave them at the old location, or delete them. Note that if you move archived recordings, your system also archives what is currently in the camera database. In case you wonder why the camera database is empty just after you have moved archived recordings, this is the reason.

Retention time

Total amount of time for which you want to keep recordings from the camera (that is, recordings in the camera's database as well as any archived recordings). The default retention time is 7 days.

Retention time covers the total amount of time you want to keep recordings for. In earlier versions of your surveillance system, you specified time limits separately for the database and archives.

The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. For example, if you have 20 cameras and you want a particular frame rate on all of them, you can enter it once in the template, and then apply the template to the 20 cameras.

Name

Description

Apply Template

Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use one of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template.

Select All

Click button to select all cameras in the Apply Template column.

Clear All

Click button to clear all selections in the Apply Template column.

Apply template on selected cameras

Apply the value from the template to selected cameras.

© 2019 Milestone Systems A/S