Setting Up A Second NVR For Redundancy (Lorex NR916) - Help

Peepers123456

Peepers123456

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Hello,

I currently have a Lorex NR916 POE NVR with 10 cameras hardwired (CAT6) directly into this NVR
I recently purchased a second Lorex NR916 that I want to connect to my network to solely use as a redundant NVR to simply record incase something happens to the main NVR
I thought this would be a simply task by keying each camera's IP address into the second NVR device settings but it appears not to be the case

Any ideas on how I would go about setting up this second NVR?
 
This is probably going to be problematic because the second NVR is fighting the main NVR for camera management.
I would suggest not using the second NVR's POE ports to connect the camera network. This is because the NVR is acting as a router for the built-in POE switch and wants to control the network of the devices connected.

How ever you have physically connected things, try setting up a second user login on each camera and make the second NVR login as a user (not an admin). This should hopefully prevent the second NVR trying to modify settings, but it will likely complain about it!.
 
Peepers123456 said:
Hello,

I currently have a Lorex NR916 POE NVR with 10 cameras hardwired (CAT6) directly into this NVR
I recently purchased a second Lorex NR916 that I want to connect to my network to solely use as a redundant NVR to simply record incase something happens to the main NVR
I thought this would be a simply task by keying each camera's IP address into the second NVR device settings but it appears not to be the case

Any ideas on how I would go about setting up this second NVR?
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Hi @Peepers123456

Are the cameras on the LAN side of both NVRs ?

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Peepers123456 said:
Both are NR9163 - 16-channel NVRs
Both NVRs are connected to the same network via the LAN connections located at #9
All the cameras are connected to NVR #1 via the 16 PoE Ports #3
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SO then the 2nd NVR has to go through the first NVR to get the videos .. thus that one NVR could become a bottle neck .. even if we can do this based on the firmware settings ..

I'd try putting the cameras on a separate PoE switch and assign static IPs and manually add them to the NVRs to see if you can get a stream to both NVRs ..

note I have not done this so I am just guessing what may work ..
 
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@mat200 I thought about doing that - using a separate POE switch to power the cameras and assigning IPs. I do think this will work as I was able to assign my two Doorbird Doorbell cameras to my 1st NVR and it worked. However I wonder if I'll lose any of the Lorex camera functions bypassing the Lorex NVR??

On another note, say I wanted to forget the 2nd NVR route as backup. Any ideas (non-cloud/monthly charges $$) on how to back up my recordings locally?
 
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