Swann H.264 Home Theater System User Manual


 
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Remember: After making changes to the settings press/click the APPLY button.
USB Backup Instructions
• First, insert a USB ash drive into the USB port on the rear of the DVR. Inserting a
ash drive into the mouse port will not work correctly.
• Make sure there are no les on the USB ash drive that you wish to keep, as data
already on the drive may be lost (whether or not you use the FORMAT option).
• If you need to format the USB ash drive, see the USB Format option in the HDD
Drive Menu, covered on “HDD Management” on page 44.
• Open the Detail Files screen - see “Detail Files and Log List” on page 34.
• Locate the le(s) you wish to copy.
• Highlight the Select check-boxes which correspond to the recordings that you
wish to backup, and left click or press select.
• You can backup multiple recordings at once, as long as their cumulative size will
t on the USB ash drive you have inserted into the DVR.
• Choose Backup.
Notes:
Backing up footage is not an instant process. Copying the footage to the USB device
may be a time consuming process, though it’s usually much quicker than the amount
of footage you’re backing up (typically about 150MB/minute, which equates to
approximately 6 minutes per GB).
There are many factors which will aect the amount of time the DVR requires to copy
all the footage you’ve selected to the USB drive, and these include:
• The quality/resolution/framerate settings of the channel(s) being backed up.
• The speed of the USB ash drive used.
• The size and amount of free space remaining on the USB ash drive you use.
The backed up footage is stored on the ash drive in the same format as it is stored
on the DVR. This means that the backed up footage will not play in a computer as a
standard video le - you’ll need to use the dedicated playback software which comes
on the mini-CD included with the DVR. Instructions on how to install and use this
software can be found later in this manual.