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Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise
to XProtect® Advanced VMS
System Migration Guide
www.milestonesys.com 16 Important differences and more
Important differences and more
A few other things to consider before migrating:
Recording frame rate
By default, XProtect Advanced VMS uses a recording frame rate of 5 frames per second. If you are
used to a higher recording frame rate in your XProtect Enterprise setup (for example, XProtect
Enterprise versions earlier than 7.0 store video recordings with the full frame rate), you may initially
find that video from some or all cameras has a lower frame rate when recorded by XProtect Advanced
VMS.
You can of course configure a higher recording frame rate for your cameras in XProtect Advanced
VMS.
Remember that XProtect Advanced VMS lets you group cameras, and configure common settings for
all cameras within a group in one go.
Archiving
Archiving is the automatic transfer of recordi ngs from a camera’s default database to another location.
This way, the amount of recordings you are able to store will not be limited by the size of the camera’s
default database.
If you are using the archiving feature in your current XProtect Enterprise setup and have allocated
disks for this purpose, it is possible to re-use these disks with XProtect Advanced VMS, as the disk
specifications basically are identical for the two systems.
Different from XProtect Enterprise, the archiving process in XProtect Advanced VMS supports multi-
stage storage architecture where the recordings can be archived again and again to new storage
areas. The Live database is automatically segmented in 1 hour segments, keeping the size of the
open Live databases as small as possible in order to keep a potential database repair after a failure
as short as possible. Definition and configuration of Live databases and archives are defined as part
of a Storage Container. Cameras that should store video or audio recordings are then set to use one
of the defined storage containers, making the storage configuration on the individual devices very
simple. In addition, it is possible to use the following features when archiving:

Signing: can be enabled if you want to write a digital signature to database files containing
recorded data. This allows the XProtect Smart Client and the XProtect Smart Client
– Player to
verify that the contents of imported and opened databases have not been tampered with and
that no database files have been removed.

Encryption: can be enabled per storage container which then encrypts video and audio data
recorded in the live database from the cameras using the storage container. The encryption is
kept and transferred with the recordings once they are archived. If the archiving function also
grooms the video recordings the encryption is still kept as it is the individual records inside the
database that are encrypted.

Grooming: a method to decrease the frame rate of the recorded video over time in order to
save space on the storage system while still keeping a record of what has happened in the
past. XProtect Advanced VMS is able to groom video recordings each time they are archived.