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Archive mode provides the automatic saving, storing, and managing of video recordings from cameras during the set period of time (see Data storage).

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titleAttention!

To switch from a different surveillance mode to the Archive mode, click the Playback tab in the lower right corner of the Surveillance window.

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titleNote
  • If a camera isn't linked to
  • a video
  • an archive and has no embedded storage (see Embedded storage), this tab isn't available.
  • If
  • When you use
  • an
  • the embedded storage, you can switch to the Archive mode only after
  • an embedded
  • the storage is
  • loaded
  • loaded (the icon of
  • an
  • the embedded storage in the
  • device
  • objects tree on the Devices tab
  • turns
  • becomes green).
  • If a camera is in the
  • Archive
  • archive mode and a video is paused, then
  • after you drag another camera into its cell (from the device tree, search panel, or map), the new camera remains in the Archive mode with video paused. If the video is played back, the new camera is also displayed in the Archive view mode with the video played black.

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You can also switch from the Live mode to the Archive mode using the advanced archive navigation panel (see Advanced archive navigation panel).

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In the Live mode, if the Surveillance window is inactive, the tabs for switching to other modes and the advanced archive navigation panel are not displayed. To display them, click the Surveillance window with any mouse button.

 To switch all cameras within a layout to the Archive mode, click the Playback button on the upper panel.

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To return to the Live mode, click the Live button.

  • when you change to a new camera, the current archive settings and the playback status are saved.

When you switch to the Archive mode for the first time, the latest recording is selected on the timeline (see The Timeline). Next time you switch to the Archive mode of any camera, the timeline pointer is located at the latest position used.

To switch to the archive mode for one camera, do the following:

  1. Select the required layout on the layouts panel (see Configuring layouts).
  2. Select the required camera.
  3. Click the Archive button located in the lower right corner of the surveillance window.
  4. Click the Timeline panel button (see Displaying and hiding the archive navigation panel). To switch back to the live mode, click the Live button.
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To switch all cameras to the archive mode, do the following:

  1. Go to the layout (see Configuring layouts).
  2. Click the Archive button located on the top panel.
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  3. Click the Timeline panel button (see Displaying and hiding the archive navigation panel). To switch back to the live mode, click the Live button.

You can also switch from the live mode to the Archive mode using the advanced archive navigation panel (see Advanced If all cameras within a layout are in the Live mode, you must open the Archive navigation panel to switch the cameras to the Archive mode (see Displaying and hiding the archive navigation panel).

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titleNote
  • If the surveillance window is inactive in the live mode, the tabs for switching to other modes, as well as the advanced archive navigation panel, aren't displayed. To display them, you must click any mouse button in the surveillance window (see Surveillance window).
  • If you select the Archive mode
is selected
  • as the default
video
  • surveillance mode on any layout for a camera
in a layout
  • , then when you switch to
that
  • this layout, the camera
is
  • immediately
in
  • turns to the
Archive

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  • If you

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  • want to

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titleAttention!
If you prefer to open the most recently recorded video when accessing the archive, create the ResetArchivePosition key
  • always open the latest recording when switching to the archive, you must create the ResetArchivePosition key on the client in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft registry
on the client.

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