Administration (continued)
Mirroring of hard disks
Mirroring of hard disks prevents the loss of records in the event of a hard disk defect.
Requirements:
●The Digital Video Recorder has at least 2 or 3 hard disks installed
●The destination hard disk is identical to the source hard disk in type and memory capacity
●The
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1 | Formatting the source hard disk for recording. | Setup Menu... > System > Storage> | |
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2 | Select the source hard disk. | Setup Menu... > System > Storage> | |
Information > Mirror 1/2 > Source | |||
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3 | Select the destination hard disk. | Setup Menu... > System > Storage> | |
Information > Mirror 1/2 > Dest. | |||
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| Start Mirroring. | Start... |
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4 | ● The source hard disk and destination hard disk are |
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synchronised (approx. 40 minutes for 10 GB). |
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| ● All data on the destination hard disk are deleted. |
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| ● All records are written to both hard disks. |
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| Interrupting Mirroring. | Stop... |
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● The status of the destination hard is set to: | Don't use |
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● The hard disk can now only be used for searching |
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for records. |
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● If the hard disk is to be used for records or archiving, | Setup Menu... > System > Storage> |
it must be formatted. | Information > Format > Format |
Continuing Mirroring - see Starting Mirroring. | Start... |
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