Instruction Manual

Milestone Husky M30/M50
Administrator's Manual
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Getting started
Name
Description
Dynamic path selection for
archives
If using this option (highly recommended), you should select a
number of different local drives for archiving. If the path containing
the Milestone Husky product database is on one of the drives you
have selected for archiving, Milestone Husky product will always try
to archive to that drive first. If not, Milestone Husky product
automatically archives to the archiving drive with the most available
space at any time, provided there is not a camera database using
that drive. Which drive has the most available space may change
during the archiving process, and archiving may therefore happen
to several archiving drives during the same process. This fact will
have no impact on how users find and view archived recordings.
Archiving Times
Specify when you want Milestone Husky product to automatically
move recordings to your archiving path(s). You can specify up to 24
archiving times per day, with minimum one hour between each one.
Select the hour, minute and second values and click the up and
down buttons to increase or decrease values, or simply overwrite
the selected value, and then click Add. The more you expect to
record, the more often you should archive.
Network Drive
Lets you add a network drive to the list of drives. First specify the
network drive, then click Add (the button becomes available when
you specify a network drive) . Note that network drives cannot be
used for recording, only for archiving.
Recording and archiving settings
Select recording and archiving (see "About archiving" on page 126) paths for each individual camera.
All properties on a white background are editable, properties on a light blue background cannot be
edited.
Name
Description
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.