The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for managing storage and serving of data streams generated by peripheral devices in a system for surveillance and/or monitoring. According to one aspect, the method comprises the steps of obtaining a configuration table, the configuration table comprising a list of one or more recording servers storing data segments generated by the peripheral device; building an association table, the association table comprising, for each recording server of the list, identifiers of data segments of the data stream stored therein; determining, based on the association table, the recording server storing a requested data segment; obtaining the requested data segment from the determined recording server and serving the obtained data segment.