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title: "Policies for Wasabi Surveillance Cloud"
slug: "policies-for-wasabi-surveillance-cloud"
description: "This section discusses the use cases and procedures for configuring Disaster Recovery and Storage Extension (Extension) policies within Wasabi Surveillance Cloud (WSC)."
updated: 2026-07-30T17:35:44Z
published: 2026-07-30T17:35:49Z
canonical: "docs.wasabi.com/policies-for-wasabi-surveillance-cloud"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.wasabi.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Policies for Wasabi Surveillance Cloud

This section discusses the use cases and procedures for configuring Disaster Recovery and Storage Extension (Extension) policies in WSC.

*Disaster Recovery (DR)* is a workflow management feature that automatically replicates your source data (and every object that is created in the local source location) and stores an identical copy of the source data in Wasabi object storage. For redundancy, both the on-premise Milestone video data and the replica in Wasabi are identical.

*Storage Extension (Extension)* extends your local storage capacity to the Wasabi cloud. This feature reclaims on-premise space by using a set retention time to determine when older data is automatically removed from local storage and moved to the cloud. When older data is moved to Wasabi object storage, newer data is kept on the local server.

A Disaster Recovery policy and a Storage Extension policy can be enabled at the same time. If both are enabled, your video is automatically replicated to the Wasabi cloud when it lands on disk.

> WSC integrates directly with your VMS and adheres to the VMS retention settings. In addition to configuring Disaster Recovery and Storage Extension policies in WSC, some VMS may require you to configure these policies directly in the VMS client, while other VMS only require these policies to be configured in WSC. Follow your VMS best practices. For more detail, contact your VMS support.

## Enabling/Disabling Disaster Recovery

While object immutability is applied to your cloud storage data, DR provides an additional layer of security by safeguarding your data from malicious threats and cyber attacks.

When the Disaster Recovery feature is enabled (default), camera data replicates to the Wasabi cloud when the VMS closes the file(s).

> Only disable disaster recovery if you want to use the cloud as an extension to your local drive.

1. Click **Wasabi Surveillance Cloud**.
2. Click **Disaster Recovery Policy**.
3. Click the toggle to enable Disaster Recovery: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/green%20toggle.png)
4. Click **Apply all**.
5. A message will notify you that the changes have been applied and that WSC is paused. Click **OK**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/wsc%20in%20paused.png)
6. To resume operations, click **Wasabi Surveillance Cloud**.
7. Click **Resume**.

## Enabling Storage Extension

> While configuring a Storage Extension policy, all replication jobs and operations will be paused.

1. Click **Storage Extension Settings**.
2. Click the toggle to enable Storage Extension: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/green%20toggle.png)

You will now set the retention period. There are two parameter options.
  - By Age—Moves recordings to the cloud that are not accessed for more than a specified time period.
  - By Size—Moves recordings to the cloud when the space on the local storage exceeds a specified value.
3. To configure By Age, enter a numerical value in the type field.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/config by age.PNG)
4. Click the drop-down to select a time interval.
5. Optionally, click **By Size**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/config by size.png)
6. Enter a value in the percentage type field.
7. Click **Apply all**.
8. A message will notify you that the changes have been applied and that WSC is paused. Click **OK**.
9. To resume operations, click **Wasabi Surveillance Cloud**.
10. Click **Resume**.

## Disabling Storage Extension

When the Storage Extension feature is disabled, WSC saves all camera data on your local drive. To disable Storage Extension, follow the steps below.

1. Click **Storage Extension Settings**.
2. Click the toggle to disable Storage Extension.
3. Click **Apply all**.
4. A message will notify you that the changes have been applied and that WSC is paused. Click **OK**.
5. To resume operations, click **Wasabi Surveillance Cloud**.
6. Click **Resume**.