The system allows you to create locks against the natural deletion of recordings, i.e. protected recordings from a specified period and cameras will not be deleted during the recycling of recordings as long as the lock exists.
For added protection, the recording lock system, instead of preventing a recording file from being deleted from the main disk, will copy the protected files to another secure folder (which can be on another disk drive) configured on the Recordings tab in the system options in the Administration Client. The file copy only takes place during the recycling process, i.e. instead of deleting the file, the system will move the file to the protected folder, which prevents duplicate recordings because the copy will only take place if the protected file is the oldest on the disk.
This allows the primary recording disks not to be occupied by protected recordings that exceed the normal retention period, freeing up space for new recordings while still providing protection for the recordings.
Playback of the locked videos (after they have been moved to the new folder) will be completely transparent to the user.
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System recording files are generated every 30 minutes of video, so if a small block of time of for example 2 minutes is locked, the entire 30-minute file will be protected. If the lock extends to multiple files, all files will be locked. |
