QVR Recording Vault

License-free active backup for surveillance recordings

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Dedicated backup and long-term archive of surveillance recordings

Are you facing these challenges?

For organizations with multiple branches or stores, how to efficiently back up multi-site surveillance videos to headquarters for central management and offsite archiving?

Is it tiresome setting up backups for recording servers one after another?

Surveillance footage must be retained for 180 days, and sometimes up to a year. Is there a storage solution with large capacity that also allows for quick retrieval of historical videos?

QVR Recording Vault is a license-free, active backup solution for surveillance recordings, designed for businesses and multi-site organizations that require long-term preservation of large volumes of recordings. Businesses can deploy a high-capacity QNAP NAS at their headquarters and enable QVR Recording Vault to automatically back up video files from endpoint recording servers running QVR Surveillance, QVR Pro or QVR Elite. QVR Recording Vault enhances backup efficiency, fulfills long-term offsite archiving, and facilitates central management for easier viewing and access.

Build your recording backup server with ease

License-free

No subscription fees required. Supports a large number of endpoint recording server connections, with no connection limits.
Seamless deployment

No changes to existing surveillance system architecture (such as servers, cameras, and cabling) is needed. Simply add the required number of dedicated backup servers within the current surveillance environment for easy integration.
Keep your recordings longer

Choose a high-capacity NAS as your QVR Recording Vault backup server and adjust the retention period to suit your needs. Saving videos for thousands of days is not a problem when sufficient storage space is allocated.

Active backup for surveillance recordings, designed for QNAP QVR surveillance systems.

What’s the difference between active backup and traditional backup?

Active backup

Once the QVR Recording Vault backup server is connected to the endpoint QVR Surveillance/QVR Pro/QVR Elite recording servers, it automatically backs up video recordings from those endpoints.
Assign backup tasks to the backup server, allowing surveillance servers to focus on recording without affecting system resources or operations.
No changes to the existing surveillance system architecture.
Backup video files retain metadata, enabling playback and search through client devices.
Businesses can efficiently manage storage space on both headquarters and endpoint NAS devices, optimizing budget management.

Traditional backup

Each endpoint surveillance server requires specific backup software to individually back up recordings to headquarters. This results in higher management requirements.
Surveillance servers handle both recording and backup tasks, which strains system resources and may impact recording performance.
Backup video files do not include metadata, making playback and search through client devices impossible.
Managing large volumes of footage is cumbersome, which increases management time and resource allocation costs.

Why businesses choose QVR Recording Vault with QNAP NAS

Dedicated backup space

Businesses can more efficiently allocate NAS storage resources between headquarters and sites. By using QVR Recording Vault as a dedicated backup server for surveillance recordings, endpoint recording servers focus on recording which reduces storage burdens.
User-friendly interface

Easily monitor backup jobs, backup status, backup frequency, retention days, and storage space usage — all at a glance.
Flexible backup settings

Flexibly set the maximum retention days and backup capacity for surveillance recordings on individual cameras. Choose regular or event recording backups, with support for video file overwriting to free up storage space as needed.
QVR Client playback and search

With metadata included in backup videos, you can easily search, browse, and play backup footage in QVR Recording Vault using the QVR Client desktop utility or mobile app.

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Streamlined centralized backup management

Backup Storage

Easily create backup storage and monitor the size of backup files, number of backup camera channels, and more.

Recording Backup Job

Quickly create recording backup jobs and flexibly configure your backup plans: choose the start time, backup scope (regular/event recording), backup frequency (every hour/every day), and overview all backup job status.

Recording Management

Customize the retention days for individual backup channels and the maximum backup capacity for regular or event recordings. Efficiently manage storage space by enabling or disabling overwriting as needed.

Permissions

Managers can flexibly set view and management permissions of backup recording for team members: [Administrators] can view and manage all files, while [General users] can only view recordings of channels they have been granted permission to access.