Hey guys so this topic might be a little complicated. First I have started a small surveillance business. I have experience running cables and setting up the hardware and software that is included with many surveillance systems. However, most of the products I want to install are ones that are DVR boxes only. Which means if the device is damaged during a storm or stolen during a burglary the footage will be a complete loss.
I have tried setting up cloud applications with little or no success. Additionally, I notice a lot of them only offer a very small amount for free, which is probably not going to work for my clients. So I thought about setting up a FTP server or something similar and using the software on the DVR boxes to connect and stream to it. Thus making them truly redundant. I realize I might have to back them up on my end as well with some kind of RAID setup later. However, I think the chances of their DVR box getting stolen or damaged and one of my HDD's failing simultaneously failing are slim. I have some concerns though.
1.) Is there a way I could setup something like this and offer my customers privacy, even though the storage medium is in my office? Like could I have them login with a user name and password and encrypt the drive so even though I have physical access I could not view their footage?
2.) I have never actually setup a FTP, NAS or anything of that nature. When I am typing it in through the DVR box software could I designate it so each customer had their own drive? Like by the number at the end of the IP address or something like that? Could I separate the drives into sectors? I would like each client to have at least 3-5 days of recordings so they have time to contact me in the event something happening.
I could charge them a small fee to basically make myself a small cloud provider. I was thinking most of them will be fine with $10.00 a month. It would pay for the electricity that is no doubt going to pull from my office and the drives themselves.
Also if I understand it right a FTP is basically a full fledged computer with all resources? I would just download like File Zilla to it or something? Then a NAS only connects to your network and must be controlled another way? Like a computer on the same LAN?
I have tried setting up cloud applications with little or no success. Additionally, I notice a lot of them only offer a very small amount for free, which is probably not going to work for my clients. So I thought about setting up a FTP server or something similar and using the software on the DVR boxes to connect and stream to it. Thus making them truly redundant. I realize I might have to back them up on my end as well with some kind of RAID setup later. However, I think the chances of their DVR box getting stolen or damaged and one of my HDD's failing simultaneously failing are slim. I have some concerns though.
1.) Is there a way I could setup something like this and offer my customers privacy, even though the storage medium is in my office? Like could I have them login with a user name and password and encrypt the drive so even though I have physical access I could not view their footage?
2.) I have never actually setup a FTP, NAS or anything of that nature. When I am typing it in through the DVR box software could I designate it so each customer had their own drive? Like by the number at the end of the IP address or something like that? Could I separate the drives into sectors? I would like each client to have at least 3-5 days of recordings so they have time to contact me in the event something happening.
I could charge them a small fee to basically make myself a small cloud provider. I was thinking most of them will be fine with $10.00 a month. It would pay for the electricity that is no doubt going to pull from my office and the drives themselves.
Also if I understand it right a FTP is basically a full fledged computer with all resources? I would just download like File Zilla to it or something? Then a NAS only connects to your network and must be controlled another way? Like a computer on the same LAN?