On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc.
NetDVMS 6.5e
Administration
101
Archiving
About Archiving
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 before the oldest records in the database are
overwritten.
With archiving, the amount of records you are able to store is limited only by the available hardware storage
capacity. Note, however, that it is only possible to archive up to 40 GB per camera per day.
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_VideoEncoderChannel\DateAndTime
Example: With the default archiving folder located under C:\videodata, video from an archiving taking place
at 23.15 on 1st June 2008 for a camera attached to channel 2 on a video encoder device with the MAC
address 00408c51e181 would be stored at the following destination:
C:\videodata\Archives\00408c51e181_2\2008-06-01-23-15
If the device to which the camera is attached is not a video encoder device with several channels, the video
encoder channel indication in the sub-directory named after the device's MAC address will always be
_1
.
Example: (e.g. 00408c51e181_1)
