Is footage uploaded to server? How does that work?

[philinpdx]

Greetings, I'm wondering how footage is being captured and recorded is being stored. Is it automatically being uploaded unto your servers and is accessable via a log in right? My next question is how long / how much recording is stored on your server? Or, how long is it stored until it is deleted? If a camera is left on 24/7 does the new video being recorded wipe out the older video? If so, how much video stays archived before new video is "recorded over it". Is it perhaps a week long of 24/7 video? It is just one camera recording?

Thank you,
Phil

 

[fenderman]

@philinpdx Welcome to the forum...Note that this is a user forum and not maintained by perspective software. Video is not uploaded anywhere unless you setup some sort of cloud/ftp which is separate and distinct from blue iris...most folks just record locally to their pc or network drive..You can even record to both pc and a hidden network drive simultaneously....you an upload to the cloud but it would use crazy bandwidth....you can limit that by uploading snapshots only...

 

[Overcon]

Hi philinpdx, storage is specific to the individual setup. If you are asking if BI has cloud storage services as a default, provided by them, then the short answer is no. The PC you install BI on is where your video is going to be stored by default.

The default paths can be found in BI under Options, Video. More than likely your videos, clips, alerts and the like are being stored locally at c:\blueiris\. It is up to you to change that if you have another local that you want to store stuff.

As for the other stuff, the same holds true for them. You can tell BI how long you want to store clips. You can tell it where you want new recordings to be held, then you can move them to a long term storage folder, then you can archive them on a graveyard (aux1) folder for even longer term storage. So for example, you could tell BI that you want to keep a weeks worth of 'NEW' recordings, then after a week have them moved to your 'STORAGE' location and held for a month and then have them moved to what I call the graveyard and keep them for 6 months and then have them deleted.

Hope that helps.