I have two locations to monitor in separate buildings. Each of them has a Gentoo desktop on the same local network. I was planning on having each of these systems record their videos and send a copy to the other system. That way I would always have two copies of all videos, and I can wget what I need from over the internet if I need to review something. I don't really need to do live monitoring.
Someone suggested I use zoneminder but I'm wondering if it might be overkill?