For the cameras on the current site, HikCentral Professional provides five storage methods (storing on encoding devices, Hybrid Storage Area Network, Cloud Storage Server, pStor or pStor Cluster Service) for storing the video files of the cameras according to the configured recording schedule. You can get device's recording settings when adding camera to an area.

1. Enter the recording setting page.
   1. Click Logical View > Cameras to enter the area management page.
   2. Select an area to show its cameras.
      Note:

      For Central System with Remote Site Management module, you can select the current site (marked with icon) from the drop-down site list to show its cameras.

   3. Select a camera and click the Name field to enter the Edit Camera page.
2. Set the Main Storage switch to on.
3. Select the storage location for storing the recorded video file.
   Note:

   If you select Hybrid Storage Area Network, Cloud Storage Server, pStor, or pStor Cluster Service, specify a server and (optional) select a Streaming Server to get the video stream of the camera via it.

4. Select the storage type and configure the required parameters.

   • Select Real-Time Storage as the storage type to store the recorded video files in the specified storage location at the real time.

     Note:

     If you choose Encoding Device as the storage location, you needn't select the storage type, but configure the following parameters as real-time storage settings by default.

     Recording Schedule Template

     Set the template which defines when to record the camera's video.

     All-Day Time-Based Template

     Record the video for all-day continuously.

     All-Day Event-Based Template

     Record the video when alarm occurs.

     Add New

     Set the customized template. For details about setting customized template, refer to Configure Recording Schedule Template.

     View

     View the template details.

     Note:

     The event-based recording schedule can not be configured for the Cloud Storage Server, and the command-based recording schedule can not be configured for the Cloud Storage Server and pStor.

     Stream Type

     Select the stream type as main stream, sub-stream or dual-stream.

     Note:

     For storing on Hybrid Storage Area Network, Cloud Storage Server, pStor or pStor Cluster Service, dual-stream is not supported.

     Pre-Record

     Record video from periods preceding detected events. For example, when someone opens a door, you can see what happens right before the door opened.

     This field displays when the storage location is set as Encoding Device, Cloud Storage Server, pStor, or pStor Cluster Service,, and it is available for the camera that is configured with event-based recording.

     Post-Record

     Record video from periods following detected events.

     This field displays when the storage location is set as Encoding Device or Hybrid Storage Area Network. It is available for the camera that is configured with event-based recording.

     Video Expiration

     If you select Encoding Device as the storage location , set Video Expiration switch to on and enter expiration day(s).

     Automatically delete the oldest videos after the specified retention period. This method allows you to define the longest time period to keep the videos as desired and the actual retention period for the videos depends on the allocated quota.

     Enable ANR

     If you select the Encoding Device or Hybrid Storage Area Network as the storage location, check Enable ANR to turn the automatic network replenishment on to temporarily store the video in the camera when network fails and transport the video to storage device when network recovers.

     Recording Server Gets Video from Camera

     If you select Hybrid Storage Area Network, Cloud Storage Server, pStor or pStor Cluster Service as the storage location, set the Recording Server Gets Video from Camera switch to on. And then configure the camera IP address, camera port, user name and password.

     Note:

     • After the function is enabled, the recording server gets videos from the camera directly, avoiding the risk that if the NVR camera connected is offline, the recording server can not get video from the offline NVR.

     • By default, the camera IP address is the IP address of current camera, you can also edit the IP address as the other camera's.

   • Select Scheduled Copy-Back as the storage type to copy the recorded video files from the encoding device or pStor to the specified storage location according to scheduled period.

     Note:

     • Make sure you have configured recording schedule stored in the device local storage or pStor for auxiliary storage first. Otherwise, the scheduled copy-back is not configurable.

     • The recordings can be copied only from the encoding device to Hybrid Storage Area Network, Cloud Storage Server, pStor or pStor Cluster Service, or from pStor to another pStor.

     Copy in

     Specify the time period to copy the recorded video files to the specified storage location during the period.

     Recording for Copy-Back

     Select the recorded video file type to backup.

5. Optional: Set the Auxiliary Storage switch to ON and configure another storage location for the video files.
   Note:

   • If Cloud Storage Server, Hybrid Storage Area Network, pStor, or pStor Cluster Service is set as the auxiliary storage location, you can select Real-Time Storage to store recorded vide files or select Scheduled Copy-Back to copy recordings from the encoding device or pStor (main storage) to specified auxiliary storage location according to the scheduled period.

   • Before setting Scheduled Copy-Back, make sure you have configured real-time recording schedule stored in device local storage or pStor for the main storage.

   • The recordings can be copied only from the encoding device to Hybrid Storage Area Network, Cloud Storage Server, pStor or pStor Cluster Service, or from pStor to another pStor.

6. Click Save.