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Way to Back Up Security Camera DVRs Offsite
Does anyone know of a way to back up a security camera DVR offsite? These DVRs have a USB port that you can use to manually back up footage but is there a more automated way to do this? Possibly with an online backup service?
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Callandor
If the DVR has a network port (it needs it for IP cameras), you may be able to access it like a networked drive from any PC, and then you can use any backup synchronization program like SyncBack. Video recording footage is very large, especially if it is high resolution, so such a plan will require a lot of network bandwidth, possibly more than your internet provider can supply.
Depends on the specific make and model. Some manufacturers do provide management tools that can do backup though often not automated. Though you would need to pull from the DVR to a computer then go to an online service from the computer. Though as Callandor pointed out, the amount of data is usually far to big to send to a online service.
In general non PC based DVRs or appliance style DVR's cannot be accessed like a PC drive share. Often they do not store the video in a 'file' but use the hard drive as a single big indexed storage space, more like a database. So even if you pull the hard drive a PC would not recognize a partition or any files.
If your unit was not a high end or some type of enterprise type model the backup options are pretty limited.
PC based units can even be a issue depending on how the video is stored, assuming the OS is not fully locked down.
If you post your hardware info I will take a look at it.
In general non PC based DVRs or appliance style DVR's cannot be accessed like a PC drive share. Often they do not store the video in a 'file' but use the hard drive as a single big indexed storage space, more like a database. So even if you pull the hard drive a PC would not recognize a partition or any files.
If your unit was not a high end or some type of enterprise type model the backup options are pretty limited.
PC based units can even be a issue depending on how the video is stored, assuming the OS is not fully locked down.
If you post your hardware info I will take a look at it.
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Thank you both for the great information. It is a network DVR. The unit I have is: http://swann.com/s/products/view/?product=1361
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I don't see any way to access those files from another PC remotely. You might be able to clone the drive in a PC by removing it, but the file format might be proprietary.
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