Proper use of archiving?
Background: Most surveillance implementations require historical archiving, and OnSSI’s products support this feature in an easy and simple way. The benefits include better disk management and better database maintenance options. The database has a capacity of 600,000 records or 40 GB of data, archiving starts a new database and allows for unlimited retention of video as long as there is disk space capacity. While the user can control video storage by setting the number of Min/Hours/Days after which video content is deleted (this is done by selecting ‘Delete records older than’ in the Camera Settings page within the Administrator, this is not a recommended control method, since the number of frames may still exceed 600,000. Once each database reaches this 600,000 frames limit the system will begin to delete the oldest image and record the newest image (FIFO). In almost all cases the proper software configuration is to leave the cameras database to it’s default (Max records in database)
