Do you need a solution for archiving video data from video surveillance cameras for 10 years?

Question

Iron

It is necessary to install a video server on the objects, which will receive video information from cameras. Video data must be stored on the server for 120 days. The video server must work in a Raid array. Next, it is necessary that the data from the server be scheduled and automatically transferred to the network storage for subsequent archiving. The NAS must support hot swapping of hard drives. After filling for example 1 hard disk, the recording should automatically move to the next hard disk. After the first one will be withdrawn and handed over to the archive. If any errors occur, the solution should notify the end user.
Thanks everyone.

Answer 1

I am always amazed by such requirements :-)
Any video surveillance system will provide them, for example, netavis. You just need to calculate how much your video will take on disks and buy the appropriate server.
It is considered simple - the number of cameras * maximum stream * 60*60*24 * 120 days
For example: 40 cameras at 4000 kb/s
40 * (4000/8/1000) * 60 * 60 * 24 *120 ~= 200 terabytes.
Well, with the recording of the archive, you will have to program yourself, there is no such thing. Or use ribbons.

Answer 2

Make a script for uploading your videos to YouTube, Vkontakte and a couple of other popular video hosting sites. I am sure that these services will be alive in 10 and 20 years. At the same time, save a lot of money on hardware.

Answer 3

Look Here RDX are the same discs, but optimized for twitching/long-term storage.

Answer 4

www.iss.ru/download.php?file=920 , page 130 - install servers for recording that contain disks with a capacity for your 120 days, and an archiving server where the archive is duplicated. It writes sequentially to all free disks, Further monitoring of free space - the first thing that the search gave backnet.ru/2013/10/07/zabbix-2-0-monitoring-svobod... Take storage disks for 24 or more and as soon as it fills up a certain amount of disks (I can’t count, there is no input on the number of recording channels), go and change the already recorded disks to empty ones. I can ask on Monday whether Trassir can write sequentially, it just spreads the archive over all free disks by default (this is a feature to save data in case of failure of some disks).

Answer 5

If money is unmeasured, then look for a turnkey solution further, something will be found.
If there is not too much money, then you need to take a solution that you like / with which you are well acquainted, and “finish it with a file”. I would dig any solution with the ability to record to some external storage (such as NAS), and from there, with a separate computer with a scheduler, I would pull the created files over the network and place them in a permanent location on a file server with disk capacity calculated for the needs.

Answer 6

Based on the TK, the ideal option is to store data in the halls of the mind . Well, if it doesn't fit, then register on " yun pan 360 ", or on some other large-sized cloud 10-20 times, then encfs to hard, broken down by days, and upload weeks to the cloud. Security - yes, money in the pocket of the authorities - yes, tons of hard drives in the warehouse - no. Just as long as one zhestak will fill up on a cloud, the other will be hammered to the fullest. And when the authorities become generous and want to descend from the clouds - RDX, as you have already been told above.

Answer 7

The NAS must support hot swapping of hard drives. After filling for example 1 hard disk, the recording should automatically move to the next hard disk. After the first one will be withdrawn and handed over to the archive. If any errors occur, the solution should notify the end user.
Thanks everyone.

HDDs themselves are not reliable. In your version, it is better to use streamers. The tape drive cassette guarantees you data safety for 30 years. Cassettes are cheap, but the streamers themselves are expensive. You can use both robotic heads and single ones. Now it is worth considering buying streamers not lower than LTO5.
I myself use them at home and at work when I worked. Now there is LTO1,2,4,7 :)
https://plus.google.com/+VladimirZhurkin/posts/hvJ...
More details about DLT streamers in general and how they work:
https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=7yN8WzWJcYk