So right now my footage is saved to my Blue Iris PC and it ends there. As I work on the road, I'm frequently not home one of my concerns is someone simply taking my computer with them. Sometime next year my local telephone company is supposed to have fiber available at my address, and they offer a 1 gig symmetrical or 2 gig symmetrical option. This has gotten me thinking that if I have 1 gig upload, it may actually be feasable to back up the footage off site. Does anyone here do this? Do you use a paid service if so? I'm just looking at my options.
How do ya'll do backups?
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mat200
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Cloud back up of surveillance video gets very prohibitive. ( in terms of bandwidth, storage costs, .. )
Look at a local NAS device .. see the Black Friday thread for some ideas
of course local on-site backup may still surfer power outage and virus / hacker issues. So a lot depends on what level of redundancy and fail safe you need.
alastairstevenson
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I've 2 NVRs, recording the same cameras.
One not very visible, one well hidden.
One not very visible, one well hidden.
Some business folks in some states are required to carry X amount of recording time by the State they live in, and the Business they run. So if its like 2 weeks, they just need enough capacity to match that. then it gets written over.
My yard is boring. I have 3 1/2 weeks of storage, then it over writes. I really don't want to archive bunnies and squirrels onto a NAS.
It depends what your recording i guess.
My real backups are my every 3 hour Clone of the C:\ drive.
But I think i might get a large USB drive to off load the miscellaneous stuff @Arjun sends me.
My yard is boring. I have 3 1/2 weeks of storage, then it over writes. I really don't want to archive bunnies and squirrels onto a NAS.
It depends what your recording i guess.
My real backups are my every 3 hour Clone of the C:\ drive.
But I think i might get a large USB drive to off load the miscellaneous stuff @Arjun sends me.
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Cloud storage can be expensive, but it is obviously very easy and convenient.
Another option would be to create an offsite storage solution yourself. Perhaps you can set this up at a family members house, second home, etc. (I have one at my parent's house for example). A permanent VPN tunnel between the two sites makes the logistics of backing up very easy (the offsite drives can appear the same as local drives). I also backup their important files to my local storage system, so we both get "off site" backups this way. Backups can/should be encrypted to ensure that your personal data stays safe/locked, even when it resides at another location.
Another option would be to create an offsite storage solution yourself. Perhaps you can set this up at a family members house, second home, etc. (I have one at my parent's house for example). A permanent VPN tunnel between the two sites makes the logistics of backing up very easy (the offsite drives can appear the same as local drives). I also backup their important files to my local storage system, so we both get "off site" backups this way. Backups can/should be encrypted to ensure that your personal data stays safe/locked, even when it resides at another location.