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To enable users to archive video from the ACC network video management server, you must enable the Storage Management feature in the Admin Tool and assign a location for the archived files.
Once Storage Management is enabled, you can archive video on demand. If you have an Enterprise Edition system, you can also set up the Continuous Archive feature in the ACC Client software.
We recommended that you set up the Continuous Archive feature to work with video data aging. By configuring the two features together, you can create a tiered storage configuration to help manage the amount of video retained on the local ACC Server. Review your video data aging settings in the Recording and Bandwidth dialog box, and set up the Storage Management Continuous Archive feature to begin archiving before data aging starts. This helps ensure that you always have high bandwidth quality video of important events, while the ACC Server continues to have space for new recordings.
If you want archiving operations to occur 24 hours each day, including retries, specify the time frame to be 00:00 to 23:59.
The time specified is in the server's local time. If you are physically located in a different time zone from the server, remember to consider the time difference.
Ensure the minimum age specified here is less than the age specified in the Recording and Bandwidth dialog box for deleting High Bandwidth video on the local ACC Server. A one day difference is sufficient to account for retries if the network connection is restricted or degraded.
For example, if the Recording and Bandwidth dialog box marks that the system will maintain 10 days of High Bandwidth video on the local ACC Server, enter 9 or less.
Each video archive is saved in a subfolder within the configured archive directory and is named after the archive start date and time.
If an error or network issue occurs during the archiving process, the ACC system will automatically retry archiving.
Archiving should be configured along with Data Aging . By configuring both, you'll have a tiered storage configuration to manage the amount of video retained on your local server.
If you want archiving operations to occur 24 hours each day, including retries, specify the time frame to be 00:00 to 23:59.
Ensure the minimum age specified here is less than the age specified in the Recording and Bandwidth dialog box for deleting High Bandwidth video on the local ACC Server. A one day difference is sufficient to account for retries if the network connection is restricted or degraded.
Automatically deletes recorded video older than the number of days specified. The maximum setting is 3650 days (10 years).
If this setting is smaller than the Archive video older than: setting, video will be deleted immediately after it is archived.
Automatically deletes the oldest archive files when the archive storage location is full.
The Status area displays information about the last, current, and queued archive jobs.
Each video archive is saved in a subfolder within the configured archive directory and is named after the archive start date and time.
If an error or network issue occurs during the archiving process, the ACC system will automatically retry archiving.