Question:

How to Transfer Video Files From an Old Volicon Observer Server to a New One?

Answer:

The following outlines the steps necessary to transfer the video data from an old server to a new one in a manner that will minimize or eliminate loss of data.
This procedure assumes that the old server is still capturing data.

1. Before transfer can start, it is important that the new server does not contain any data in it's 'video' folder. (c:\video\{encoder}\). If there is any contents in the video folder, it will have to be deleted
2. Plug the feeds into the new server and verify that the server is encoding the correct contents
3. Go to the system services on the new server (services.msc) and stop the "observer encoder" service
4. Delete all video files from the "Video" folders
5. Go to the system services on the old server, stop and disable the "observer encoder" service
6. On the new server, start the "observer encoder" service (This will create a break-point in the timeline)
7. Go to the old server, and begin copying contents from the old server to the new server (using the old server console to manage the copying, to further minimize issues).
8. Once the copying is complete go to the new server and re-index all of the video files.
9. Verify from the web GUI that you can see old data (the data which was copied, and that it can be pulled up via the player)

Keywords:

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