Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 49)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
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Configure storage: Drive selection
Specify which drives you want to store cameras' recordings on. You can specify separate drives/paths
for recording and archiving (see "About archiving" on page 120).
Properties available for all XProtect software versions:
Name Description
Drive Letter representing the drive in question, for example C:.
Purpose
Select what you want to use the drive for:
Not in use: Do not use the drive.
Recording: Only available if the drive is a local drive on the
XProtect Express server. Network drives cannot be used for
recording. Use the drive for storing recordings in the regular
database for XProtect Express.
Archiving: Use the drive for archiving. For archiving, it is generally
a good idea to use a drive which has plenty of space. With dynamic
path selection for archives (see description in the following), you do
not have to worry about drive space.
Rec. & Archiving: Only available if the drive is a local drive on the
XProtect Express server. Network drives cannot be used for
recording. Use the drive for storing recordings in the regular
database for XProtect Express as well as for archiving.
Recording Path
Path to the folder in which the camera's database should be stored.
Default is C:\MediaDatabase. To browse for another folder, click the
browse icon next to the required cell. You can only specify a path to
a folder on a local drive. You cannot specify a path to a network
drive. If you use a network drive, it is not be possible to save
recordings if the network drive becomes unavailable.
If you change the recording path, and you have existing recordings
at the old location, you are asked whether you want to move the
recordings to the new location (recommended), leave them at the
old location, or delete them.
Tip: If you have several cameras, and several local drives are
available, you can improve performance by distributing individual
cameras' databases across several drives.