Consolidating video archives after Archiver failover - Security Center 5.11

If your primary Archiver server goes offline and failover occurs, you can later consolidate video archives for the period it was offline. Using the archive consolidation feature, you can duplicate the video archives from the secondary or tertiary servers to the primary server.

1. From the Config Tool homepage, open the Video task and click the Roles and units view.
2. Select an Archiver, click the Resources tab, and then click Advanced settings.
3. In the Advanced settings dialog box, switch the Enable archive consolidation option to ON.
   
4. Click OK > Apply.
   The archive consolidation feature is enabled, and a Default consolidation transfer group is created. If the primary Archiver server fails and restarts, video archives from the additional servers copy over to fill in the gaps every hour, if archives are available.
5. (Optional) To see the Default consolidation transfer group and its transfer settings in Config Tool, do the following:
   1. Open the GeneralSettings.gconfig file that is found in the Security Center installation folder.
      The default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Genetec Security Center 5.11\ConfigurationFiles on a 64-bit computer and C:\Program Files\Genetec Security Center 5.11\ConfigurationFiles on a 32-bit computer.
   2. Add the following line of code:
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      <archiveTransfer ViewArchiveConsolidationTransfer="true" />

      
   3. Save the file.
   You can now see the Default consolidation transfer group from the Archive transfer page in the Config Tool Video task.
6. (Optional) To change the video transfer settings, do the following:
   1. Open the Video task and click the Archive transfer view.
   2. Double-click the Default consolidation transfer group.
   3. In the Transfer group properties dialog box, enter a new name for the group in the Name field.

      

   4. In the Recurrence option, select how often you want the transfer to occur.
   5. In the Allow n Simultaneous transfers option, select the number of cameras for which to transfer video from simultaneously.
   6. Click Save.