Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 63)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 63 Advanced configuration
Cameras and storage information
About video and recording configuration
Once you have added hardware devices and attached cameras, you can configure video and
recording settings in three ways:
Name Description
Wizard-driven
Guided configuration where you can specify video, recording and
archiving settings for all your cameras.
General
Specify video, recording and shared settings (such as dynamic
archiving paths and whether to record audio or not) for all your
cameras.
Camera-specific
Specify video, recording and camera-specific settings (such as
event notification, PTZ preset positions and fisheye view areas) for
each individual camera.
About database resizing
In case recordings for a camera get bigger than expected, or the available drive space is suddenly
reduced in another way, an advanced database resizing procedure automatically takes place:

If archives (see "About archiving" on page 120) are present on the same drive as the camera's
database, the oldest archive for all cameras archived on that drive is moved to another drive
(moving archives is only possible if you use dynamic archiving (see "Dynamic path selection
(properties)" on page 71), with which you can archive to several different drives) or
—if moving
is not possible —deleted.

If no archives are present on the drive containing the camera's database, the size of all
camera databases on the drive is reduced by deleting a percentage of their oldest recordings,
temporarily limiting the size of all databases.
When the Recording Server service (see "About services" on page 155) is restarted upon such
database resizing, the original database sizes are used. Therefore, you should make sure to solve the
drive size problem. Should the database resizing procedure take place, you are informed on-screen in
XProtect Smart Client, in log files, and, if set up, through notifications.
About motion detection
Motion detection settings are linked to the Recording properties settings for the camera under which
you can enable and configure motion detection for the selected camera. Motion detection configuration
is a key element in your system: your motion detection configuration determines when the system
generates motion events and typically also when video is recorded.
Motion detection is enabled as default. Disabling it improves the CPU and RAM performance of your
system, but can also affect your motion detection, event and alarm management.