Data Back-Up

All Digital Video Recorders store information on a hard drive, something you should consider when choosing your Digital Video Recorder is how you will back-up this data if there is ever an incident that you may be required to provide evidence of to the police.

Common forms of back-up include:

Connecting to Video recorder
This is mainly only for ‘budget’ Digital Video Recorders and involves connecting the Digital Video Recorder to a video recorder and recording the information on to tape.

USB to PC link
Quite common, and simple to do, simply connect the Digital Video Recorder to a PC via cable and copy information to PC Hard drive, from there you can write on to disk, pen stick etc.

USB Pen Stick
Quite common, and simple to do, amount of storage depends on USB pen stick used.

CD Rewriter (built in or external)
Simple to do, some Digital Video Recorders would also require you to load software on to any device that you wanted to then watch the CD on. You should keep this in mind if giving CDs to police as with this software they would not be able to view the CD. Also bare in mind CDs are limited to 750 Megabytes

DVD Rewriter (built in or external)
Simple to do, some Digital Video Recorders would also require you to load software on to any device that you wanted to then watch the DVD on. You should keep this in mind if giving DVDs to police as with this software they would not be able to view the DVD. 4.7Gigabyte of space available.

Networked
You can copy data from your Digital Video Recorder on to any PC while viewing it over the internet

Please check individual Digital Video Recorders to see what forms of backing up they offer.