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Milestone XProtect ® Go 2014 Administrator's Manual
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The difference ensures that very large disks not necessarily are considered to be running out
of disk space just because they have less than 10% disk space left.
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If there are no archives to delete, your system attempts to resize camera databases by
deleting their oldest recordings. This happens if:
o there is less than 5% disk space left, and the available disk space goes below 20 GB plus
1 GB per camera
- or -
o the available disk space goes below 75 MB plus 10 MB per camera (example: with ten
cameras, the server would be running out of disk space if the remaining available disk
space went below 175 MB (75 MB plus 10 MB for each of the ten cameras))
The difference ensures that very large disks will not necessarily be considered to be running
out of disk space just because they have less than 5% disk space left.
When the system restarts your recording server after resizing the database, the original databases
sizes are used, so you should make sure that the drive size problem is solved or, alternatively, adjust
camera database sizes to reflect the altered drive size.
If the system performs the database resizing procedure, you are informed on-screen in XProtect Smart
Client, in log files, and or in notifications (if set up).
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,