Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 66)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
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Add a new storage
You always create one storage with a predefined recording database named Recording. You cannot
rename it. Apart from a recording database, a storage can contain a number of archives.
1. To add an extra storage to a selected recording server, click the button located below the
Storage configuration list. This opens the Storage and Recording Settings dialog box.
2. Specify the relevant settings to continue.
3. Click OK.
If needed, you are now ready to create archive(s) within your new storage. See Create an archive
within a storage (on page 66).
Create an archive within a storage
A storage has no default archive when it is created.
1. To create an archive, select the relevant storage in the Recording and archiving
configuration list.
2. Click the button below the Recording and archiving configuration list.
3. In the Archive Settings dialog box, specify the required settings (see Archive settings
properties (on page 66)).
4. Click OK.
Archive settings properties
In the Archive settings, specify the following:
Name Description
Name Rename the storage if needed. Names must be unique.
Path
Specify the path to the directory to which you save recordings in
this storage. The storage does not necessarily have to be located
on the recording server computer.
If the directory does not exist, you can create it. Network drives
must be specified by using UNC (Universal Naming Convention)
format, example:
\\server\volume\directory\ .
Retention time
Specify for how long recordings should stay in the archive before
they are deleted or moved to the next archive (depending on
archive settings).
The retention time must always be longer than the retention time of
the previous archive or the default recording database. This is
because the number of retention days specified for an archive
includes all the retention periods stated earlier in the process.