Support for S3 or Object storage as backup or recording destination?
AnsweredHello all,
We have pipe dreams of backing video storage data to a cloud or cloud on premise provider. Most of these data storage solutions require utilizing the S3 or Object storage protocol.
SMB
Is this something on the roadmap? It would be nice to provide large and scalable storage using the AWS type connectivity.
SAMBA was invented in 1992. I would love some newer protocols to make storage/retrieval/archive/backup super duper easy.
Any light you can shine is appreciated.
Thank you,
Matt
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Hello Matt,
I'm Network Optix Support team representative.
First, let me disclose some future plans here.
In 4.2 our team is going to introduce AWS S3-based Nx Cloud Storage with certain and specific licensing/billing.
Not sure that it will meet your words about being "scalable", from how we see it now it's more about consumer-level customers.Second, having previous thing in mind it becomes clear that we're definitely gonna use S3 API to implement that. Not sure what company strategy will be in future, maybe they'll even decide to make that part of code available for all customers to build up their own Storage Clusters. I am personally a supporter of this idea and will root for.
Third thing - not sure if you've heard of that - but with every Media Server installation there's special Storage SDK distributed which allows anyone with certain experience in C++ to develop their own implementation of any storage-related protocol.
As of know I've heard of at least 2 cases of the more or less successful S3 integration. I don't have their contacts, sorry, but it would be really cool if they jump in if they see this discussion! -
Following with interest...
This was an interesting find on Freelancer... don't know if the project was ever executed or successful.
https://www.freelancer.com/projects/software-architecture/plugin-for-witness-nvr-software/details
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