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The archiving process is the continuous process, that is, every 10 minutes, the system will check if the images from the previous days (According to the number of days selected for synchronization) that are located in the recording folder are archived and synchronized in the archive folder, if the system finds that any files are missing, it will copy these files again. This continuous process allows the system to continue an archiving operation even if the system has stopped for any reason (such as a network outage). If you delete a file from the archive folder that is still within the synchronization period, it will be copied again by the archiver.

 

In standard normal operation, when the clock changes to the next day, the system will begin copying recordings from the previous day(s) to the archive folder. If the server stops during the process, it will restart again as soon as the server is back up and running.

 

The archive root folder structure will contain a subfolder for each day of recording (with the date as the folder name) and within this day folder, you will find subfolders for each camera that was archived that day.

 

The archiving process is linear, that is, the system will copy data from only 1 camera at a time so as not to overload the main recording disk with excessive reads.

 

You can configure the archiving process to only work at certain times or days, thus allowing complex configurations such as, instead of archiving every day (the previous day), you could configure the system to synchronize only during the weekend. To do this, you must configure the operation schedule to occur only during the weekend (For example Saturday and Sunday) and configure the number of days for synchronization to 7, so when the process starts, it will synchronize the last 7 days of recording during the archiving process, in this case you also need to configure the number of days to keep in the archive folder with a minimum of 7 days.

 

The archive folder can typically be located on another computer on the network, or it can also be directed to a virtual cloud folder (It is possible, for example, to map drives in Azure Cloud via SMB).

 

The Surveillance Client also allows playback of videos recorded in the archive folder through the archive playback function. If you want to use this function, it will not be possible to use Glacial cloud storages due to excessive data reading time, which can take hours.