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11BChapter 12: Recording
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7. Click Save to save the settings.
Manual recording
The recorder lets you manually record video during live view. This can be useful if you know
that the recorder is not currently recording and you see something of interest on a camera
screen that should be recorded.
Once a manual recording is started, the recording continues until it is manually stopped. If an
alarm occurs during a manual recording, the alarm recording has priority over the manual
recording. If a scheduled recording is already in progress when a manual recording is started, it
continues to record as scheduled.
Alternatively, the manual recording menu shows the current state of manual recording for each
camera. In this menu you can enable or disable the current manual recording for any given
camera.
To start and stop manual recording:
1. From the menu toolbar, click Configuration > Remote Configuration > Recording >
Manual Recording.
2. Check the boxes of the cameras to start or stop manual recording. The button is red when
manually recording. Default is off.
Hot spare
You can set up a spare recorder to act as a slave unit (hot spare) for up to four master
recorders. This slave unit will continually monitor the master recorders and if one of the master
recorders should fail, it can then take over recording until the failed recorder comes back online.
Once the failed recorder is back operating normally again, the slave recorder will send its
recordings to the HDDs of the recovered master so that no recordings are missing.
The hot spare recorder can only backup one master recorder at a time. If more than one
recorder should fail, the hot spare recorder will only backup the recorder that failed first.
All recorders must have the same number of channels.
Once the failed master recorder is back online, the slave unit will return to its normal monitoring
state.
Note: When the hot spare recorder records the cameras of another recorder, it will record the
cameras continuously. So any event settings such as motion and VCA are not taken into
account by the hot spare recorder.