Milestone Basis+ 6.5 - Manual (Page 108)

Milestone XProtect Basis+ 6.5; Administrator’s Manual
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not be on the list the next time you access the Archive setup window.
However, the Archives folder at the target destination will remain available
for viewing recordings.
Tip: Milestone’s Storage Calculator, found in the support section of the Milestone website,
www.milestonesys.com, can help you easily determine the storage capacity required for your
surveillance system.
Static Archiving
A default archiving location (typically c:\program files\milestone\milestone surveillance\) is
specified for each camera. The default archiving directory, called Archives, will be located at this
location.
To specify another location for the archiving directory for a camera, either click the browse icon
next to the path listing for the required camera and browse to the required location, or click the
default path listing to overwrite it.
Overwriting an existing path
Tip: To maximize load sharing and optimize performance, distribute archives across your
available storage space, if possible.
Note: You cannot archive to external drives, only to a local drive on the computer running XProtect
Basis+. If specifying another archiving directory than the default directory (typically c:\program
files\milestone\milestone surveillance\), the directory you specify must exist. You are not able to
create new directories as part of the process.
Archives for the selected camera will be stored in separate subdirectories under the Archives
directory at the location you specify. The subdirectories will be named according to the following
structure:
...\Archives\CameraMACAddress_VideoEncoderChannel\DateAndTime
Example: With the default archiving folder located under C:\MyFiles\MySurveillanceSystem,
recordings from an archiving taking place at 23.15 on 1st June 2005 for a camera attached to
channel 2 on a video server device with the MAC address 00408c51e181 would be stored at the
following destination:
C:\MyFiles\MySurveillanceSystem\Archives\00408c51e181_2\2005-06-01-23-15
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 subdirectory named after the device’s MAC address will
always be _1. Example: 00408c51e181_1.
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.