Archive Vault
In Archive Vault, you can add, edit, enable, disable, and delete archiving tasks, and transfer recordings from other servers to your $_DSPRODUCTNAME_$.
The left section of the list displays the current number of different status categories while the right section shows all archiving tasks. Sort tasks by Name or Creation time, and click on a task to view detailed information such as status, transmission speed, speed limit, camera, limitation, and storage. The bottom section provides different applications including Recording, Timeline, and Bandwidth Control.
To add a scheduled archiving task:
- Click Add to create a new archiving task.
- Enter the name of the archiving task in the Name field.
- Select Schedule Execution from the Task type drop-down menu to execute the archiving task periodically. You can configure the execution time of the archiving task by selecting grids in Task Execution Schedule. Select an entire day by clicking on a day and a specific time by clicking on the hour.
- Select Next to continue.
- Adjust Storage Settings and Rotation Rules in Storage.
- Storage Settings:
- Select a desired storage space from the Archiving storage drop-down menu. For your reference, the selected path of archiving directory is displayed on the screen.
- Click Management to open Storage. You can view, add, delete or edit storage space here.
- Tick the Customized archive folder name checkbox to specify a name for the archived recording directory.
- Rotation Rules:
- Keep the files within (days): Specify a period of time (in days) to retain the recordings. Any recordings that were saved earlier than the specified time range will be deleted automatically.
- Limit the archive folder up to (GB): Specify the maximum size limit (in gigabytes) of the storage space to archive recordings. When the specified maximum size is reached, either the recording will stop or the oldest recordings will be overwritten by new ones depending on the option selected in When space or time limit is reached.
- When the space or time limit is reached: Select remove old archives or stop recording from the drop-down menu as the corresponding action.
- Select Next to continue.
- Specify the archiving source server in Source.
- Select Remote server from Archiving source:
- Specify the IP address of the server in IP address.
- Specify the port number in Port.
- Specify the user name to log into the server in User name.
- Specify the password to log into the server in Password.
- Or select Local host or other recording servers from Archiving source without providing connection information.
- Select Next to continue.
- Tick the checkbox(es) of the desired cameras to perform archiving tasks in Camera.
- Select Next to continue.
- Filter the archived recordings in Recording.
- Specify Archive Range:
- Select From the first recording or From recording start time to choose when to start archiving the files.
- Specify Recording Time:
- Create a weekly plan by selecting time slots on the grid to archive recordings. You can select an entire day by clicking on a day and a specific time by clicking on the hour.
- Select Next to continue.
- Configure archive recording type in Advanced.
- In Recording Mode, select recording modes to archive recordings.
- In Video Reduction, choose to enable Event Summary to archive event clips of the recordings, and disable Event Summary to obtain the complete recording file.
- In Specify Archive Range, choose to enable Archive range does not overlap with the source server. By enabling this option, only the recordings from the source server that are about to be rotated will be archived. The archiving process will start one day earlier to avoid network bandwidth problems, therefore overlapping with the last day of the source server's archiving range.
- Click Finish to save the archiving task.
To add a one time execution archiving task:
- Click Add to create a new archiving task.
- Enter the name of the archiving task in the Name field.
- Go to General > Task type, and select One Time Execution from the Task type drop-down menu. By selecting this option, the archiving task will only be executed once. You can select Execute immediately from the Execute Time drop-down menu to allow archiving tasks to be executed immediately once it is added. You can also select Execute at the specified time to specify when to execute the archiving task.
- Select Next to continue.
- Select recording storage space in Archiving Storage drop-down menu.
- Adjust Rotation Rules in Storage.
- Keep the files within (days): Specify a period of time (in days) to retain the recordings. Any recordings that were saved earlier than the specified time range will be deleted automatically.
- Select Next to continue.
- Specify the archive source server in Source.
- Select Next to continue.
- Tick the checkbox(es) of the desired cameras to perform archiving tasks in Camera.
- Select Next to continue.
- Filter the archived recordings in Recording.
- Specify Archive Range:
- Select the archive range in From recording start time and To recording end time to archive recordings within a specific time range.
- Select Next to continue.
- Configure archive recording type in Advanced.
- Click Finish to save the archiving task.
To edit task:
- Select a task from list and click Edit.
- Modify the configuration in General, Storage, Source, Camera, Recording, and Advanced tab.
- Click Save to restore the change.
Note:
- The modified settings of Camera, Recording, and Advanced will not be applied to past recordings and will only take effect in the next archived recording.
To batch edit task:
- Select the archiving task you wish to apply attributes to other archiving tasks.
- Go to Edit > Edit Batch.
- In the Source of Attributes step, the archiving task's attributes are grouped into four categories: General, Storage, Recording, and Advanced. Tick the Apply checkboxes for the attributes you wish to apply to other archiving tasks. After selecting the attributes, click Next.
Note:
- You can view attribute values that are attached to the end of select attribute value names on the list.
- Attributes marked with asterisks (*) can only be applied to archiving tasks that are of the same type as the batch edit's source archiving tasks.
- Only the attributes supported by the batch edit's source archiving tasks can be applied to other archiving tasks.
- In the Select the Archiving Tasks to Apply step, tick the Apply checkboxes to apply the selected attributes to your archiving tasks. When you finish selecting the attributes, click Finish to complete the batch edit.
Note:
- When the batch edit's source of attributes is different, attributes can only be partially applied to certain archiving tasks, and "-" will be displayed when you tick the archiving task.
To enable / disable task:
- Select a task from list.
- Click Enable to enable selected task from the Enable drop-down menu or click Disable to disable the corresponding archiving task.
To delete a task:
- Select a task from the list and click Delete.
- A confirmation prompt will appear. Select Delete all archived files or keep all archived files. Click Ok to delete the task.
Application
After selecting a task, you can open different applications in the bottom section.
- Recording: Browse and manage all the recording files of the current task.
- Timeline: Sort the archived recordings and search for specific files on a dedicated timeline.
- Bandwidth Control: Configure the bandwidth limit of the archiving task to manage network bandwidth. Please go to the Bandwidth Control tab.