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NVR 3 Corporate System Administrator
’s Manual
Back Up System Data
Making regular system backups is always recommended in case of unexpected disasters or
accidents that may damage NVR server. Other than this, you may need to perform an
on-demand backing up to (1) migrate the whole NVR server data to another computer, or (2)
re-install the NVR server on current computer. There are several types of data on NVR server
essential to your surveillance system, please consider your purpose and follow the below
instructions to create their backups:
Regular Backup (system settings only)
NVR server can create a backup file of the whole system settings within one click. The settings
being backed up include the following properties you set for system: (1)
Users
(2)
Device
(3)
Storage
(4)
Schedule
(5)
Event
(6)
System
Settings
/
User Interface Style
/
Joystick
,
and (7)
the saved
Views
in
Live View
screen.
Complete Backup (system settings + video files)
Besides system settings, some organizations may want to back up the video recording
occasionally in case that the recording hard drives may fail. The recording files ( *.raw) can
only be played on the playback utility
Archive Player
. You may download it from
Step 1: Back up System Settings
1.
Go to
Setup
page
System
tab
Backup / Restore
2.
In
Backup
section, c
lick “
Browse
” to select the destination for backup file, the file will be
saved as
Backup_YYYYMMDD.xml
file. Then click “
Backup
” to export the file.
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