Hard drive setup, General settings, Repair on power loss – OpenEye EasyNVR User Manual

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General Settings

The General Settings section includes information about your hard drive, such as available space and
available recording time.

This option will designate if the recorder will attempt to repair data on the hard drive upon power loss.
The repair process can take up to an hour depending on how much data is on the hard drive.

Internal Disks

Internal Disks allows you to examine the state and details of internal hard drives; as well as add new
drives to data rotation, remove drives from data rotation, format drives, and repair data on drives.

Check Drive Status and Details

1.

On the Hover menu, click

Setup

.

2.

In the

Hard Drive Setup

menu, click

Internal Disks

.

3.

The

Active

status of the hard drives will be displayed under the Active column.

a.

An Active option of

Yes

indicates the drive is currently included in data rotation.

Yes

indicates the drive is being used for recorded data.

No

indicates the drive is not being used for recorded data.

4.

To see Details, click

Detail

in the Device you want to view, and then click Yes.

Internal Disk Action Options

The Action column contains a number of options for configuring your hard drives.

Add

Add a drive to data rotation.

Remove

Remove a drive from data rotation.

Format

Format/erase a drive for use with the EasyNVR.

Repair

Repair a drive. This process can take up to an hour depending on how much data is

on the drive.

Data Protection

This option allows you to lock the data of specified alarm events. Event video protected here will not be
deleted or overwritten.

1.

Click

Data Protection

.

2.

Select your desired alarm events, listed by date and time, and click

Lock

, and then select

Yes

to

lock the events.

3.

Close

Data Protection

.

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