We are recording video of all foot traffic into and out of our "secret server room." No motion detect, just record.
I have a single 500 gig HD now, and am thinking about how to set things up for archiving the videos. We plan on keeping the events for a year or more.
My question is --what settings would be best for keeping lots of data?
Currently, each event is set to one hour. 320x240 resolution B/W, 3fps (is 3fps too many?).
That spits out Jpegs at about 212M per hour = just about 5 gigs a day. I made an hour long event into an .avi and it was about 75M.
I have a pile of Hard drives at my disposal, so doing a monthly rotation with 250G Hdds is what I am thinking about doing now.
Unfortunately, that means I have to remember to rotate the drives, and hit some commands. I would love to figure out a way to automate the whole process.
I have seen a few ways to make videos floating around the forums here, I think one or two are automated as well. I don't NEED to make the Jpegs into video, but i am thinking that is the easiest way to save space.
An 8TB RAID 5 NAS would be a lot of fun, but I won't be going that direction for this project.
Any direction would be greatly appreciated.