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Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
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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, it is not be possible to 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 (recommended), leave them at the
old location, or delete them.
Tip: 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 (see "About
archiving" on page 118). 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, XProtect Essential
will also archive 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.
Total Size Total size of the drive.
Free Space Amount of unused space left on the drive.
Dynamic path selection for
archives
If using this option (highly recommended), you should select a
number of different local drives for archiving. If the path containing
the XProtect Essential database is on one of the drives you have
selected for archiving, XProtect Essential will always try to archive
to that drive first. If not, XProtect Essential automatically archives to
the archiving drive with the most available space at any time,
provided there is not a camera database using that drive. Which
drive has the most available space may change during the archiving
process, and archiving may therefore happen to several archiving
drives during the same process. This fact will have no impact on
how users find and view archived recordings.
Archiving Times
Specify when you want XProtect Essential to automatically move
recordings to your archiving path(s). You can specify up to 24
archiving times per day, with minimum one hour between each one.
Select the hour, minute and second values and click the up and
down buttons to increase or decrease values, or simply overwrite
the selected value, and then click Add. The more you expect to
record, the more often you should archive.
Properties available in XProtect Enterprise and XProtect Professional only: