Wark>iark>th the DVR booted up and the cameras dark>iark>splayark>iark>ng on screen rark>iark>ght clark>iark>ck your mouse to brark>iark>ng up the submenu as sark>howark>n below. From thark>iark>s select the "Vark>iark>deo Search" optark>iark>on at the top. ark>Iark>f you are unable to control your mouse and the button functark>iark>ons on the DVR ark>iark>tself are not workark>iark>ng hold the rewark>iark>nd button untark>iark>l you hear a beep to enable them and proceed as dark>iark>rected above. 

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[Fark>iark>g1]

After selectark>iark>on Vark>iark>deo Search you wark>iark>ll be presented wark>iark>th the search screen as sark>howark>n below. Here from the search menu the fark>iark>rst thark>iark>ng you wark>iark>ll do ark>iark>s set the approprark>iark>ate month you would lark>iark>ke to search. The day ark>iark>s mostly unark>iark>mportant as ark>iark>t wark>iark>ll search the entark>iark>re selected month for you. after settark>iark>ng the date ark>howark>ever the most ark>iark>mportant thark>iark>ng you do before anythark>iark>ng else ark>iark>s clark>iark>ck SEARCH.

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[Fark>iark>g2]

ark>Iark>f you see the message below you dark>iark>d not clark>iark>ck search prark>iark>or to selectark>iark>ng the date you would lark>iark>ke to vark>iark>ew. Please clark>iark>ck search.

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After clark>iark>ckark>iark>ng "search" you wark>iark>ll see ark>iark>t hark>iark>ghlark>iark>ght any day on the calendar that has recordark>iark>ngs on ark>iark>t. Days wark>iark>ll be eark>iark>ther hark>iark>ghlark>iark>ghted ark>iark>n green or red, or both, ark>iark>ndark>iark>catark>iark>ng what type of recordark>iark>ng ark>iark>s on that day(Green for standard and red for motark>iark>on/alarm based recordark>iark>ng). From thark>iark>s poark>iark>nt sark>iark>mply clark>iark>ck on the day of the month that wark>iark>ll contaark>iark>n the footage you desark>iark>re to back up.

After choosark>iark>ng the day, we wark>iark>ll skark>iark>p rark>iark>ght past the hours labeled 00-23 and go straark>iark>ght to the "Fark>iark>le Lark>iark>st" optark>iark>on at the button of the page. You wark>iark>ll see the page sark>howark>n below.

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[Fark>iark>g4]

The page you see wark>iark>ll have more vark>iark>deo fark>iark>les than dark>iark>splayed above, and wark>iark>ll most lark>iark>kely have several pages of them. You may clark>iark>ck "Prev." or "Next" to scroll through the varark>iark>ous pages of vark>iark>deo fark>iark>les. From left to rark>iark>ght the vark>iark>deo fark>iark>le sark>howark>s the Channel of the recordark>iark>ng, the tark>iark>me perark>iark>od ark>iark>t spans, the total sark>iark>ze of the fark>iark>le, and what type of recordark>iark>ng ark>iark>t ark>iark>s(motark>iark>on or normal). You may only back up fark>iark>les from 1 page at a tark>iark>me. Check the box of any vark>iark>deo fark>iark>les you wark>iark>sh to back up and then wark>iark>th your <abbr rel="tooltip" data-orark>iark>gark>iark>nal-title="A small data storage device that uses flash memory and has a built-in USB connection. They can be used on any computer with a USB port, which nearly all modern computers have.">flash drark>iark>veabbr> ark>iark>nserted ark>iark>n to the DVR's extra USB port press the "Backup" button. You wark>iark>ll see the progress screen sark>howark>n below.

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[Fark>iark>g5]

You wark>iark>ll be notark>iark>fark>iark>ed when the backup ark>iark>s complete and left at the fark>iark>le lark>iark>st page agaark>iark>n. From here you may scroll to other pages and back up other fark>iark>les. When you have the desark>iark>red fark>iark>les backed up you may exark>iark>t the menu completely and remove your flash drark>iark>ve from the DVR. You wark>iark>ll now have the fark>iark>les backed up to the flash drark>iark>ve.