OnSSI NetDVMS Rev 6.5
Administration
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Archiving
About Archiving
Note: Access to features in the Administrator application, including those described in the following, may
require administrator rights.
With the daily archiving feature in NetDVMS, you are able to keep recordings for as long as required,
limited only by the available hardware storage capacity.
You enable and configure archiving in the
Archive setup window
. The Archive setup window also lets you
specify where archives should be stored for each camera.
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Benefits of Archiving
By default, information received from cameras is stored by NetDVMS in a database for each
camera.
The database for each camera (see
Camera Settings for [Device Name] [Camera Name]
window
) is
capable of containing a maximum of 600.000 records or 40 GB per day before the oldest records
in the database are overwritten.
With daily archiving, the amount of records you are able to store is limited only by the available
hardware storage capacity.
By using archiving, you will also be able to back up archived records on backup media of your
choice, using your preferred backup software.
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How Archiving Works
For each camera, for which archiving has been specified, the contents of the camera database will
be moved to a default archiving directory called Archives. This will happen automatically one or
more times every day, depending on your archiving settings.
The default archiving directory is located on the computer running the NetDVMS software, by
default in the directory containing the NetDVMS software.
In the archiving directory, separate sub-directories for storing archives for each camera are
automatically created. These sub-directories are named after the MAC address of the device to
which the camera is connected.
Since you are able to keep archives spanning many days of recordings, and since archiving may
take place several times a day, further sub-directories, named after the archiving date and time,
are also automatically created.
The sub-directories will be named according to the following structure:
...\Archives\CameraMACAddress_VideoServerChannel\DateAndTime
