Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 105)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
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About storage
Under Storage, you can monitor and edit database settings for the device.
At the top, you can see the selected database and its status. In this example, the selected database is
the default Local Default and the status is Active.
Possible statuses for selected database:
Name Description
Active Database is active and running.
Archives also located in old
storage Database is active and running and has archives located in other
storage areas as well.
Data for some of the devices
chosen is currently moving to
another location
Database is active and running and is moving data for one or more
selected devices in a group from one location to another.
Data for the device is
currently moving to another
location
Database is active and running and is moving data for the selected
device from one location to another.
Information unavailable in
failover mode Status information about the database cannot be collected when
database is in failover mode.
Further down in the window, you can see the individual status of the databases (OK or Old Storage),
location and how much space they each use.
In the Total used space field, you can see the total spaced used for the entire storage.
For information about configuration of storage, see About storage and archiving (on page 63).
About remote recording
The remote recording option is only available if the selected camera supports edge storage or is a
camera in a Milestone Interconnect setup.
To ensure that all recordings are saved in case of network issues, select Automatically retrieve
remote recordings when connections are restored. This enables automatic retrieval of recordings
once connection is re-established.
The type of hardware selected determines where recordings are retrieved from:

For a camera with local recording storage, recordings are retrieved from the camera's local
recording storage.