Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 125)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 125 Advanced configuration
Different drives: Automatic archiving if database drive runs out of disk space
In case the system server is running out of disk space, and the archiving drive is different from the
camera database drive, and archiving has not taken place within the last hour, archiving automatically
begins in an attempt to free up disk space. This will happen regardless of any archiving schedules.
The server is considered to be running out of disk space if:
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there is less than 10% disk space left, and the available disk space goes below 30 GB plus 1.5
GB per camera
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the available disk space goes below 150 MB plus 20 MB per camera. Example: with ten
cameras, the server would be running out of disk space if the remaining available disk space
went below 350 MB (150 MB plus 20 MB for each of the ten cameras).
The difference ensures that very large disks are not necessarily considered to be running out of disk
space just because they have less than 10% disk space left.
On the archiving drive, the system automatically checks that the space required for data from a
camera to be archived plus 1 GB of free disk space per camera is available. If not, the archive drive's
oldest data from the relevant camera is deleted until there is sufficient free space for the new data to
be archived.
About viewing archived recordings
You can view archived recordings via XProtect Smart Client. You can, for example, use features such
as exporting and browsing with archived recordings.
For archived recordings stored on a local or network drive, you can use XProtect Smart Client's
playback features to find and view the relevant recordings, similar to recordings stored in a camera's
regular database. You can also use exported archives, archives stored outside local or network drives,
in XProtect Smart Client. For more information, see the XProtect Smart Client documentation at
www.milestonesys.com .
Configure general scheduling and archiving
To configure general scheduling and archiving, do the following:
1. In the Management Application navigation pane, expand Advanced Configuration, right-click
Scheduling and Archiving, and select Properties.
2. Specify properties as required for Scheduling all cameras (on page 126), Scheduling options
(on page 127), and Archiving (on page 128).
3. Your system comes with two simple schedule profiles, Always on and Always off, which you
cannot edit or delete. If these do not meet your needs, you can create any number of
customized schedule profiles for each camera. You can reuse a customized schedule profile
for more than one purpose if you want to.
4. Save your configuration changes by clicking Save in the yellow notification bar in the upper-
right corner of the Management Application.
When archiving, disable any virus scanning (see "About virus scanning" on page 12) of
camera databases and archiving locations.