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My company is selling IP Camera system, and currently we have a project that need your backup advice.

So this project will have 120 IP cameras, recorded to 6 PC units. So 1 PC will held recording from 20 cameras roughly.

Each PC will have 2 TB HDD, which approximately contains recording for 4-5 days. Each PC will be partitioned into 3 volumes : C (system only, 300 GB), D (record drive 1), E (record drive 2). So recording process will happened on drive D, when full it will record on drive E. If drive E full, it will delete drive D and record there, and whole process repeat...

Inside the same LAN (1000 Mbps speed), there will be 2 server units. Each server unit will have 14 x 2TB of HDD (HP Storeasy 1630), used as daily backup. 1 server will serve 3 PC units. This server installed with its windows server.

So here are backup requirement that we need :
1. Backup daily from each PC units to server unit, automatically by schedule.
2. I want files backup from drive D and E from each PC, not partition image backup. By preserving original recording file format, then easy to playback old files stored in server. No need to restore partition image first, which will take long time to do.
3. If server is full, then backup system can delete oldest files automatically..

So please advice what product i should recommend to my customer.
Thank you.

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 09:10
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Each group of 3 pc holds on average 4.5 TB of data , server capacity is 28 TB, so making full backup of each PC daily will give you 6 days of backups. If you need more, you need to make some of them incremental or differentials.

> 2. I want files backup from drive D and E from each PC, not partition image backup. By preserving original recording file format, then easy to playback old files stored in server. No need to restore partition image first, which will take long time to do.

As backup will be stored on hard disk (not on tape) it doesn't matter if backup is made as disk backup or file backup - individual files may be recovered from it without restoring the whole partition.

The product you can use is Backup & Recovery Workstation ( or Backup & Recovery Advanced Workstation ) version 11.5
Create a shared folder on the server, set up a custom scheme with cleanup rule "When there is insufficient space while backing up" (
http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR11.5/index.html#776.html ) . Shedule them at different times of the day to avoid network bottleneck. Set compression to minimum as the video data is already compressed.

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 18:28
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Thank you for the reply.
For backup calculation, if calculating 28 TB / 4.5 TB = 6 days of full backup, maybe not correct, because that may create duplicated files in backups. I think the ideal is incremental backup, so only transfer new created files from PC units to server unit. Correct me if I am wrong.

About the automated delete on oldest files at Server if server is getting full, does Backup & Recovery Workstation can do that ? Please confirm it.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 06:06
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1 - yes, in this case incremental backup will create new backup only with changed files.
On the second question, Backup & Recovery Workstation can perform such cleanup as described in the link I've posted. It can behave in different ways depending on what backups are in the vault.
To make the first scenario happen (... Delete the oldest full backup with all dependent incremental/differential backups) while performing another incremental backup, you need to make sure that this 'oldest full backup' is not the base backup of current chain - i.e. make a full backup once a week or two.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 18:16