Milestone XProtect Professional 2014 - Manual (Page 73)

Milestone XProtect ® Professional
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 73 Advanced configuration
Dynamic path selection (properties)
When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 64),
you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. In the case of dynamic path selection,
this is because the properties are shared by all cameras.
With dynamic archiving (see "About archiving" on page 126) paths, you specify a number of different
archiving paths, usually across several drives. If the path containing the system database is on one of
the drives you have selected for archiving, the system always tries to archive to that drive first. If not,
the system automatically archives to the archiving drive with the most available space at any time,
provided there is not a camera database using that drive. Which drive has the most available space
may change during the archiving process, and archiving may therefore happen to several archiving
drives during the same process. This fact has no impact on how users find and view archived
recordings.
Dynamic archiving paths are general for all your cameras. You cannot configure dynamic archiving
paths for individual cameras.
Name Description
Enable dynamic path
selection archives
Enables the use of dynamic path selection, allowing you to select
which paths you want to use. The list of selectable paths initially
represents all drives on the server, both local and mapped drives.
You can add further paths with the New path feature below the list.
Use
Select particular paths for use as dynamic archiving paths. You can
also select a previously manually added path for removal (see
description of Remove button in the following).
Drive Letter representing the drive in question, for example C:.
Path
Path to where you save the files, for example C:\ or
\\OurServer\OurFolder\OurSubfolder\ .
Drive Size Total size of the drive.
Free Space Amount of unused space left on the drive.
New path
Specify a new path, and add it to the list using the Add button.
Paths must be reachable by the surveillance system server, and
you must specify the path using the UNC (Universal Naming
Convention) format, example:
\\server\volume\directory\ . When the
new path is added, you can select it for use as a dynamic archiving
path.
Add Add the path specified in the New path field to the list.
Remove
Remove a selected path —which has previously been manually
added —from the list. You cannot remove any of the initially listed
paths, not even when they are selected.
Video recording (properties)
When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 64),
you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. Either in order to speed up things, or