Bacula Community Edition is an amazingly powerful open source backup software which works extremely well on private networks. However, if you need to backup workloads that are only reachable over the Internet, your first reflex may be to allow traffic to your Bacula File and Storage Daemons in your firewalls. Certainly, you can safely accomplish this by constraining access to specific source IPs on both sides, but what if you are hosting your Bacula infrastructure behind an ISP providing dynamic IPs? This post provides a solution to backup remote workloads without exposing Bacula’s endpoints to the Internet as such: You…
Transcode Reolink streams for smaller recordings
While my video surveillance system covered all my home’s ingress areas, I did not have full coverage over my outside property. In order to remedy this situation, I installed some Reolink RLC-520A cameras since they allowed me to power them using power over ethernet, provided high resolution video streams and had decent online reviews. However, little did I know that their recordings would end up eating up most of my Frigate NVR’s allotted disk space. I needed to figure out a way to transcode these Reolink streams into smaller recordings. About my Frigate setup I have setup Frigate to perform…