Back options for a CCTV system
Ladies & Gentlemen, A company has CCTV systems with a recorder capacity of 1.5 Tbyte installed at it's 15 outlets which are located in different parts of beautiful Kenya. Being an international organization, they are bound by home country requirements on records retention and would like reliable yet affordable backup solutions that will be implemented for each of the 15 locations independently. Any ideas? FYI, my IT is rusty so for the hardcore techies, please don't get offended :) Thanks Kind Regards, Wanjiru -- Believe: - To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe ----Anatole France
Hello @Wanjiru, pls find my comments below. :-) The main problem you have is that your recording system has locked you down with vendor specific limitations. A temporary change on the system like " Motion Detection" and also reduce the frame capture size will help. This will have immediate savings on data storage. If the recorded volumes are quite high then complete hardware changes are necessary. And if the data volumes are similar to a small data centre, then it may become necessary to link all the different locations and have a centralised system. Therefore, each evening etc, the recorders/machines run a backup script to offload the contents to the central storage data centre server. There are many solutions possible and each carries a cost impact. It all depends on how much data needs to be captured and saved. I hope The Queen Bee will have its data centre ready soon. They should be able to takeup such business very easily, saving you from spending thousands of USD on large centres. You may also contact KDN. HTHs. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Wanjiru Njoroge <wanjirunjoroge@gmail.com> wrote:
Ladies & Gentlemen, A company has CCTV systems with a recorder capacity of 1.5 Tbyte installed at it's 15 outlets which are located in different parts of beautiful Kenya. Being an international organization, they are bound by home country requirements on records retention and would like reliable yet affordable backup solutions that will be implemented for each of the 15 locations independently. Any ideas? FYI, my IT is rusty so for the hardcore techies, please don't get offended :)
Thanks Kind Regards, Wanjiru --
Thanks guys. Labhu, your pal didn't contact me off list. The organization is a bank and using a 3rd party for back up is a lot of drama what with due diligence, 3rd party solution has to meet PCI requirements on security of the images, logical access, audit trail. An in house solution presents the best prospects. I needed to know what alternatives are in the market before i submit my recommendations. Labhu, if anything pans out we'll advise you. Once again, thanks guys. On 5/27/10, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello @Wanjiru, pls find my comments below. :-)
The main problem you have is that your recording system has locked you down with vendor specific limitations. A temporary change on the system like " Motion Detection" and also reduce the frame capture size will help. This will have immediate savings on data storage. If the recorded volumes are quite high then complete hardware changes are necessary. And if the data volumes are similar to a small data centre, then it may become necessary to link all the different locations and have a centralised system. Therefore, each evening etc, the recorders/machines run a backup script to offload the contents to the central storage data centre server.
There are many solutions possible and each carries a cost impact. It all depends on how much data needs to be captured and saved.
I hope The Queen Bee will have its data centre ready soon. They should be able to takeup such business very easily, saving you from spending thousands of USD on large centres. You may also contact KDN.
HTHs.
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Wanjiru Njoroge <wanjirunjoroge@gmail.com> wrote:
Ladies & Gentlemen, A company has CCTV systems with a recorder capacity of 1.5 Tbyte installed at it's 15 outlets which are located in different parts of beautiful Kenya. Being an international organization, they are bound by home country requirements on records retention and would like reliable yet affordable backup solutions that will be implemented for each of the 15 locations independently. Any ideas? FYI, my IT is rusty so for the hardcore techies, please don't get offended :)
Thanks Kind Regards, Wanjiru --
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If the CCTV machines run FTP servers or SSH - or even web-servers, it could be a matter of accessing the systems and pulling down the files. You may need a VPN between the CCTV servers and the backup servers. This should not be too difficult, given that banks have redundant links that connect the branches. There certainly are numerous ways of doing this, only limited by security concerns and banking IT processes. Olive trees are important. They represent everything that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world - whether it be belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a religion or, most of all, a place called home. - Thomas Friedman - "The Lexus And The Olive Tree" ________________________________ From: Wanjiru Njoroge <wanjirunjoroge@gmail.com> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Thu, May 27, 2010 3:25:36 PM Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Back options for a CCTV system Thanks guys. Labhu, your pal didn't contact me off list. The organization is a bank and using a 3rd party for back up is a lot of drama what with due diligence, 3rd party solution has to meet PCI requirements on security of the images, logical access, audit trail. An in house solution presents the best prospects. I needed to know what alternatives are in the market before i submit my recommendations. Labhu, if anything pans out we'll advise you. Once again, thanks guys. On 5/27/10, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello @Wanjiru, pls find my comments below. :-)
The main problem you have is that your recording system has locked you down with vendor specific limitations. A temporary change on the system like " Motion Detection" and also reduce the frame capture size will help. This will have immediate savings on data storage. If the recorded volumes are quite high then complete hardware changes are necessary. And if the data volumes are similar to a small data centre, then it may become necessary to link all the different locations and have a centralised system. Therefore, each evening etc, the recorders/machines run a backup script to offload the contents to the central storage data centre server.
There are many solutions possible and each carries a cost impact. It all depends on how much data needs to be captured and saved.
I hope The Queen Bee will have its data centre ready soon. They should be able to takeup such business very easily, saving you from spending thousands of USD on large centres. You may also contact KDN.
HTHs.
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Wanjiru Njoroge <wanjirunjoroge@gmail.com> wrote:
Ladies & Gentlemen, A company has CCTV systems with a recorder capacity of 1.5 Tbyte installed at it's 15 outlets which are located in different parts of beautiful Kenya. Being an international organization, they are bound by home country requirements on records retention and would like reliable yet affordable backup solutions that will be implemented for each of the 15 locations independently. Any ideas? FYI, my IT is rusty so for the hardcore techies, please don't get offended :)
Thanks Kind Regards, Wanjiru --
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