Cloud Storage for Blue Iris Recommendation Please

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JackStone

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I currently store my Blue Iris footage locally.

I would like to ALSO store my blue iris footage in the cloud. Can anyone recommend a cloud storage service and any links or info on how to have Blue Iris also store to the cloud as well as locally.

The upstream bandwidth generated will be approximately 7mb/s using H.265
 
JackStone said:
I currently store my Blue Iris footage locally.

I would like to ALSO store my blue iris footage in the cloud. Can anyone recommend a cloud storage service and any links or info on how to have Blue Iris also store to the cloud as well as locally.

The upstream bandwidth generated will be approximately 7mb/s using H.265
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Hi @JackStone

How much storage space per day do you think you'll need?
 
Blue Iris is not really designed to record to the cloud. It can automatically upload clips to an FTP server, but the clips need to be finished writing before the upload can occur. This causes significant delay that might be unacceptable if your goal is to retain footage of an event that causes you to lose your server. And you also need to devise a scheme for automatically deleting old clips from the FTP server, because Blue Iris does not provide that.

You could back up clips to Dropbox or Google Drive or similar by having Blue Iris record into a folder that is automatically synchronized by the storage provider's app. How well this performs is dependent on the app that does the sync.

So depending on your purposes it may be ideal to rent a Windows dedicated server (or a VPS) somewhere and run a second copy of Blue Iris there, configured for absolute maximum efficiency (especially Limit decoding, direct-to-disc). Have the remote BI access the cameras either via VPN or by port forwarding with a source address restriction that ensures only your remote BI server is able to connect to the cameras. Renting such a server is likely to be at minimum about $40 a month, possibly much more depending on the provider you choose and how much RAM/storage/bandwidth you need.
 
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FYI, one of the cheaper dedicated hosting options I've found over the years is Cheap Dedicated Servers at Joe's Datacenter - Host at Joe's! I've never used them myself but I know they have been around and offering reasonable prices for a lot of years. A lot of dedicated server hosts don't offer low-cost options like these guys do.
 
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At 100GB per day most internet providers will shut you down. You will need to purchase a business grade connection.
 
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BI Cloud wasn't designed to support that scale of backup from one customer. It may work (or not, I'm not sure if it enforces a concurrent FTP connection limit) but even if it worked perfectly we're talking about $10/mo for a few hours of storage at the bit rates the OP is talking about.
 
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