Milestone M50 - Manual (Page 50)

Milestone Husky M30/M50 Administrator's Manual
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Name Description
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
Milestone Husky product server. Network drives cannot be used for
recording. Use the drive for storing recordings in the regular
database for Milestone Husky product.
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
Milestone Husky product server. Network drives cannot be used for
recording. Use the drive for storing recordings in the regular
database for Milestone Husky product 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.
Archiving Path
Only editable if not using dynamic paths for archiving (see "About
archiving" on page 126). Path to the folder in which the camera's
archived recordings should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase.
To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the
relevant cell. If you change the archiving path, and there are
existing archived recordings at the old location, you are asked
whether you want to move the archived recordings to the new
location (recommended), leave them at the old location, or delete
them. Note that if you move archived recordings, Milestone Husky
product will also archive what is currently in the camera database.
In case you wonder why the camera database is empty just after
you have moved archived recordings, this is the reason.
Total Size Total size of the drive.
Free Space Amount of unused space left on the drive.