Bosch Appliances EN operation manual Disk Manager

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DISK MANAGER >

The disk manager menu gives access to information on the internal hard disk(s) and any external disks connected. The status of the recorded video and associated data is also accessed via this menu. Archiving is accessed via this menu. Access to some menus may be password protected.

MAIN MENU

DISK MANAGER

>> LOCAL ARCHIVING

Segments of recorded video can be written to (re)writable disks using the local archiving menu.

•Select Archive Setup to check the status of the writer, the progress of the writing, or to erase or format rewritable disks.

•Select Archive Session to make a list of the video segments to be archived and to start writing.

MAIN MENU

DISK MANAGER

LOCAL ARCHIVING

>>STATUS OVERVIEW

•Disk capacity shows the total space available in Gigabytes.

•Used space shows the total space used by all video recordings including protected recordings.

•Protect rec usage shows the space used by protected recordings that cannot be overwritten.

•The displayed Recording time left value depends on the recording options that are set, and alarm and motion frequency. The maximum recording time shown depends on the available storage capacity and recording setup.

MAIN MENU

DISK MANAGER

STATUS OVERVIEW

>>> ARCHIVE SETUP

•Progress is shown as a percentage of the current activity.

•Select Cancel Archiving (or press F2) to stop the current archive session (this can result in an unusable disk).

•Set Finalize to Yes if the disk is to be finalized after archiving.

•Select Erase Rewritable to remove all data from a rewritable disk.

•Free Space shows the free space available on the inserted disk.

>>>ARCHIVE SESSION

•Select View Archive List to review the selected video segments and to start the archiving procedure.

•Fill in a begin and end, date and time for the video segment you wish to archive.

•Select Add to Archive List (or press F2) to place it in the list. All recorded cameras in the time span are selected.

•To remove a video segment from the list, select it with the arrow keys and press F2.

•The archive list is saved until archiving is carried out. Video segments that have been partially overwritten or deleted are removed from the list.

•Select Start Archiving to write the video segments to disk.

•If the total size is greater than the disk capacity, then only the first segments that fit are archived. Those segments that are not archived remain in the list so that they can be archived to a new disk.