Policies for Wasabi Surveillance Cloud

  • Updated on May 13, 2025
  • Published on Mar 26, 2025
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This section discusses the use cases and procedures for configuring Disaster Recovery and Storage Extension (Extension) policies within Wasabi Surveillance Cloud (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.

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 to do so. For more detail, contact your VMS support.

Enabling/Disabling Disaster Recovery

While object immutability is applied to your cloud storage data, Disaster Recovery (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). 

Disable disaster recovery ONLY 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 to enable Disaster Recovery.
  4. Optionally, click  to disable Disaster Recovery.
  5. Click Apply All. 
  6. A message will notify you that WSC operations are now paused. Click OK.
  7. Click Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.
  8. 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. Clickto enable Storage Extension.

    Once enabled, you will set a 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. 
  4. Click the drop-down to select a unit. 
  5. Select a unit from the list. 
  6. Optionally, click By Size.

  7. Enter a value in the percentage type field. 

  8. Click Apply all.
  9. A message will notify you that WSC operations are now paused. Click OK.
  10. Click Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.
  11. Click Resume.

Disabling Storage Extension

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

  1. Click Storage Extension Settings.
  2. Click to disable Storage Extension.
  3. Click Apply all. 
  4. A message will notify you that WSC operations are now paused. Click OK.

  5. Click Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.

  6. Click Resume.