Milestone XProtect Essential 2014 - Manual (Page 54)

Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
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Name Description
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.
Configure storage: Recording and archiving settings
Select recording and archiving (see "About archiving" on page 118) paths for each individual camera.
All properties on a white background are editable, properties on a light blue background cannot be
edited.
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.