How to backup Media from security camera SD Card

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Hi, I have reolink cameras setup with the reolink integration. In the side bar I can go to Media -> Reolink -> "Camera"

and from there I can browse the SD card of each camera and pull up the timestamped files that were recorded. I purposly don't use the reolink app or cloud and want to do everything via HA if possible.

I'd like to backup the SD card file to another computer/server. Is there a way to access these files from HA and have it copy them somewhere else. Maybe an rsync plugin or something similar? I don't want to go with a full frigate NVR install if I can help it since the only functionality I need is to copy the files to another computer.

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I am pretty certain the camera can directly write to a server the same thing it records to SD. If so then you would never have to move the data because it would already be there. I think the SD card is only a backup. Go into the camera web GUI and give it the username, password and URL of the server. It is a one-time thing and then the data will always be there. You have a choice of protocols, including at least FTP and SFTP

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