On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc.
NetDVR 6.5
Administration
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Dynamic Archiving
Dynamic archiving is ideal if you wish to archive to several drives during the same archiving process but do
not want to worry about how much space is used on each drive. Dynamic archiving is only possible when
you select the
Automatic path selection
check box.
When you select
Automatic path selection
, you will be able to specify archiving locations for all selected
cameras in one go. In the
Select drives for dynamic archives
section, simply select the box next to each drive
required as archives.
Note that it is only possible to select drives; you cannot edit the paths. An
Archives
directory will
automatically be created in each drive, and the archiving will take place the same way as described
previously under
Specifying that Archiving Should Apply for Specific Cameras
.
If you need to use a path for archiving that is not in the list, click the
Add target
button which is described
previously.
What Happens During Dynamic Archiving?
If the drive on which the camera stores its regular database is among the drives you have selected for
dynamic archiving, archiving for the camera in question will always take place to that drive first.
If the drive on which the camera stores its regular database is or becomes full—or if it is simply not among
the drives selected for dynamic archiving—archiving will take place to the selected drive with the most free
disk space. Which drive that is may change during the archiving process, and archiving may therefore
happen to several drives during the same process. However, that has no impact on how you find and view
archived recordings.
Note:
If you use a drive for both recording and archiving, archiving to that drive will only take place from
cameras
recording
to that drive. In that case, you should select one or more other drives for archiving, so
that archiving from other databases will also take place. Alternatively, you should avoid using the same drive
for both recording and archiving.
Important:
If you have more that one surveillance server, each surveillance server
must
archive to its own
mapped location in order for archiving to work. If you try to archive to the same mapped location from all the
servers, archiving will not work.
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Archiving Audio
If audio is enabled on a device, audio from the device will also be archived. If the device is a video encoder
with several channels, audio will be archived with the camera on channel 1.
