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General information about server archives

Statuses of archive volumes

A remote archive can only be a file on one or several remote storages.

To create a remote archive, do the following:

  1. Go to the Archive tab.
  2. In the branch of
  3. the 
  4. the Server object,
  5. click
  6. click the Create... link.
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  7. Select the Remote
  8.  archive
  9.  archive type.
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  10. Specify the name and color of the archive (1).
  11. Select the storage type (2):
  12. In the Color field, select the color of an archive.
  13. If necessary, in the Depth, days field, specify the maximum depth of storing an archive in days. If you specify the 0 value, the archive depth is unlimited (see Configuring recording to an archive).
  14. In the Multimedia storage field, specify the name of an archive.
  15. In the Storage type field, select the type of archive storage:
    • Block,
  16. block, 
    • if you need low latency and high performance in various situations. For example, for tasks with a large read and write load;
  17. object
    • Object, if

  18. a technical support specialist recommended you to use this type of storage.
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  19. In the Partitions information section, click the + button.
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    As a result, a panel for configuring a path to a remote storage opens
  20. It is not recommended to use object type of storage without prior consultation with AxxonSoft technical specialist
  21. .
  22. Enter a path to

  23. the
  24. a remote storage, where

  25. the
  26. an archive must be located (

  27. 3
  28. 1).

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    If you plan to connect several users from this computer to

  29. the
  30. a remote archive, do the following:

    1. To the C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file add the following string: "192.168.1.1 DNSname1", where 192.168.1.1 is the IP address of the remote storage, DNSname1 is the domain name of the remote storage.
    2. When creating a remote archive, use the specified domain name in the address.

    If you need to add several remote archives using different remote user accounts, do the following:

    1. To the C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file add the IP addresses and domain names of all remote storages.
    2. When creating archives, use the specified domain names in the address.

    In a failover system with a backup

  31. Server
  32. server (see Setting up a configuration with the backup Server), the hosts file on the backup

  33. Server
  34. server must include

  35. records
  36. recordings from all

  37. Servers,
  38. servers if domain names differ on each

  39. Server
  40. server.

  41. Enter the username

  42. and password (4). The user must have
  43. of the user who has permissions to access the remote storage (2)

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    The username must be specified with a prefix of the domain (domainname\username) or name of the computer (computername\username) where this account is located.

  44. Click the Connect button (5).
    This will connect you
  45. Enter the password of the user who has acess to the remote storage
  46. . When you are connected, you will see a dialog box for configuring the archive parameters
  47. (2). 
  48. Click the Connect button.

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    ! Only one remote user can connect to the remote storage at a time. This is a limitation of Windows OS

  49. !

    Attempting to connect multiple users at the same time can result in connection errors and storage malfunctions. You can check the active user connections in the Partitions information section.
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    If this error occurs, disconnect the previous user in one of the following ways:

  50. 1.
    1. Run the net use /delete command.
  51. 2.
    1. Use the PsExec system program to open the command prompt as the LocalSystem user (psexec.exe -i -s cmd.exe) and run the same command.
  52. This will connect you to the remote storage.

  53. When you are connected, you see a dialog window for configuring the archive parameters.
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  54. In the Archive field, enter

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  56. the file size in GB or set it by moving the slider. The size of

  57. the
  58. an archive file must greater than or equal to 1 GB. For the Fat32 file system, the maximum archive size is 4 GB.

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    If you need to create an archive file larger than 16 TB, the cluster size for the NTFS file system

  59. should
  60. must be set to a value greater than 4 KB when formatting the disk in Windows OS.To do this, right-click

  61. on
  62. the disk to which the archive file will be written, and in the menu that opens, select the Format... item.

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    In the Format window that

  63. appears
  64. opens, from the Allocation unit size list, select a cluster size greater than 4 KB and click the Start button.

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    To change the archive folder in the remote storage, click the

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  67. If necessary, you can add other remote storages to the archive and configure their parameters.
  68. Click the Apply Image Added button.

Creating Creation of a remote archive is complete. After the archive is created, the status of the remote storages, where the archive is located, will be is displayed.

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