Unifi Protect with External Storage

Computer Hardware & Server Infrastructure Builds
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Hi Tim,
I remember watching your video about unifi video with Raid storage.
As I have been doing some testing with unifi protect, I did an upgrade of the hard drive. In that process I got to thinking about your freenas setups and wondered if there was a way to connect to an external storage via network.
What are your thought and ideas, maybe a daily/weekly backup that copies the data to storage, and clears the drive.
Thanks,
David

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There is not any official way that I am aware of to make it work, but you could SSH into the system and build scripts that could make it happen.

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Thanks, I just wanted to ask. Was hoping that we could provide feedback to Ubiquiti so we could have other options.

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I’ve read on Ubiquiti forums of people backing footage up to an NFS share, but it’s very much a hack not officially supported.
Better would be if Ubiquiti enable the use of the 2nd USB-C port for external direct storage but so far they refuse to…
My personal take - it’s not going to happen. They want to limit the usefulness of the CK2+ (assuming that’s what you’re referring to) to push people to future higher-end devices.