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The Maintenance Menu
HDD Tab
On this tab, you can check on the status of hard drives connected to the DVR.
External drives connected via USB will not appear on this list, and can’t be used to
record footage - USB lacks the bandwidth to write multiple streams simultaneously.
External USB drives can only be used for backing up recordings.
Log Information
The DVR continuously creates information logs for every alarm event, operation and
exception as they happen. These logs are stored in the DVR’s hard drive and can be
viewed and exported at any time.
Log Search Tab
On this tab, you can search log files for a specific log event.
How to search for specific system information logs?
1. Set the log search criteria including the
Start Time
,
End Time
,
Major Type
and
Minor Type
.
2. Click
Search
. After a few seconds, the DVR displays all the log files matching
your search criteria. Detailed information on each log can be viewed by clicking
. If there is a related video file available for the log, simply click to play the
video.
Note: Up to 2000 log files can be displayed at a single time.
The log entries displayed here can be saved as a single text file onto an external
USB device.
