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Cloning LTS NVR HDD Keeps Failing - Is It Possible To Clone Them?

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Dominic Chanderbhan
•Feb 07, 2019

Good Morning All,

We have a client that wants to backup 16TB of storage as they are upgrading to a larger channel NVR. Now we have tried to do backups in hours, days, weeks via the VMS and also direct from the NVR to an external HDD however it keeps failing or just stopping. No idea why.

Is it possible to clone the drives and hope they can be used to review footage ? Anyone did such a large backup ?

fyi it’s an LTS NVR. Spoke to their tech who indicated they never backed up that much before. 

 

Thanks

MD
Matthew Del Salto
•Feb 07, 2019
Hudson Security
Do you have the ability to take the drives out for this operation? You could pop the drives out- pop another one in so youre still recording and use tools like https://ipvm.com/reports/dvr-examiner
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Undisclosed Integrator #1
•Feb 07, 2019
In reply to Matthew Del Salto

Hi Matthew,

that software looks good. Issue is trying to get the client to pay that amount of money. I will look into it more.

thanks

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Shannon Davis
•Feb 07, 2019
IPVMU Certified

I don't see why you couldn't clone a hard drive and still work. This would take a while to clone that's for sure. 

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Sean Patton
•Feb 07, 2019

If you are upgrading to a larger channel NVR, why not just keep the old NVR until the video ages out? You aren't reusing the drives because you would need to buy new drives to clone the data to, so just put new drives in the new NVR, correct?

As Matthew mentioned, DVR Examiner could work, and in terms of customer cost, how much would they be paying for the time/effort/storage to backup 16TB of video?

I have not tried cloning NVR drives, but I would imagine just making sure the format of the new drive is correct, there should be no issue. I would be concerned about how the data was written to each drive, and if drive naming and sequencing could be critical? These are just general guesses/concerns.

I have backed up well over 16TB of storage, but it was a purposely designed plugin within a VMS and Veracity Cold Storage device, and not applicable in this case. It sounds odd to me that even trying to back up hours of video, results in failure? I wonder if there is a backup transfer size limit that isn't documented?

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Undisclosed Integrator #2
•Feb 07, 2019

Yes it is possible to 'clone' the footage. You have to essentially download the footage a chunk at a time onto the new media. I have done this before with 2 TB Drive and it took almost 8 hours.

I have never been able to get the 'tool' to work and the only reason I downloaded the 2 TB was because I was forced too. It is literately cheaper/easier to sell the customer a new NVR rather than pulling that much footage. 

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