Archiving recordings

In deployments where video recordings are retained for longer than 24 hours, Milestone recommends moving the older recordings to a more cost-effective storage option. Archiving reduces the required size of the media database volume (disk 1) that holds your recordings, and helps you lower your costs because of the EBS gp2 storage's reduced capacity requirements.

To avoid filling the media database storage, you can reduce the retention time or lower the resolution and frame rate of your recordings.

Make sure that the capacity of the EBS gp2 volume (disk 1) can hold your recordings for a minimum of one day. Use another storage option for archiving. Milestone recommends the following archiving options:

• Amazon S3 with Surveillance Bridge by Tiger Surveillance. Automatically transfer archived recordings to a selected S3 class bucket. See Surveillance Bridge.

• Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. The service provides fully managed Microsoft Windows file servers, backed by a fully native Windows file system. See FSx for Windows File Server storage