How to backup your Ubiquiti NVR/CloudKey+ Protect videos remotely to Backblaze B2

Sadly, Ubiquiti offers no way to backup the videos stored on their NVR and Cloudkey appliances. This sucks if you have a fire, or breakin, and the device is stolen or otherwise compromised. Checking various reddit and ubiquiti community posts, it doesn’t look like a proper solution is coming either (been asked for for years!) So, I decided to try and fix this issue myself. Note this takes a LONG TIME to backup if you have continuous recording, or, lots of alerts, so it might not work for you – for example on Starlink, it takes approximately 4 hours for me to backup a single day of alerts from only 6 cameras....

January 25, 2022 · 3 min · 511 words · Matt G