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- Unifi Protect version 1.20 or higher (as per [`pyunifiprotect`](https://github.com/briis/pyunifiprotect))
- `rclone` installed with at least one remote configured.
## Installation
# Setup
1. Install `rclone`. Instructions for your platform can be found here: https://rclone.org/install/#quickstart
2. Configure the `rclone` remote you want to backup to. Instructions can be found here: https://rclone.org/docs/#configure
3. `pip install unifi-protect-backup`
4. Optional: Install `ffprobe` so that `unifi-protect-backup` can check the length of the clips it downloads
### Account Setup
## Unifi Protect Account Setup
In order to connect to your unifi protect instance, you will first need to setup a local admin account:
* Login to your *Local Portal* on your UniFiOS device, and click on *Users*
@@ -52,8 +46,64 @@ In order to connect to your unifi protect instance, you will first need to setup
* Click *Add* in at the bottom Right.
* Select the newly created user in the list, and navigate to the `Assignments` tab in the left-hand pane, and ensure all cameras are ticked.
## Installation
## Usage
*The prefered way to run this tool is using a container*
### Docker Container
You can run this tool as a container if you prefer with the following command.
Remember to change the variable to make your setup.
> **Note**
> As of version 0.8.0, the event database needs to be persisted for the tool to function properly
> please see the updated commands below
#### Backing up locally:
By default, if no rclone config is provided clips will be backed up to `/data`.
```
docker run \
-e UFP_USERNAME='USERNAME' \
-e UFP_PASSWORD='PASSWORD' \
-e UFP_ADDRESS='UNIFI_PROTECT_IP' \
-e UFP_SSL_VERIFY='false' \
-v '/path/to/save/clips':'/data' \
-v '/path/to/save/database':/config/database/ \
ghcr.io/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup
```
#### Backing up to cloud storage:
In order to backup to cloud storage you need to provide a `rclone.conf` file.
If you do not already have a `rclone.conf` file you can create one as follows:
```
$ docker run -it --rm -v $PWD:/root/.config/rclone --entrypoint rclone ghcr.io/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup config
```
Follow the interactive configuration proceed, this will create a `rclone.conf`
file in your current directory.
Finally, start the container:
```
docker run \
-e UFP_USERNAME='USERNAME' \
-e UFP_PASSWORD='PASSWORD' \
-e UFP_ADDRESS='UNIFI_PROTECT_IP' \
-e UFP_SSL_VERIFY='false' \
-e RCLONE_DESTINATION='my_remote:/unifi_protect_backup' \
-v '/path/to/save/clips':'/data' \
-v `/path/to/rclone.conf':'/config/rclone/rclone.conf' \
-v '/path/to/save/database':/config/database/ \
ghcr.io/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup
```
### Installing on host:
1. Install `rclone`. Instructions for your platform can be found here: https://rclone.org/install/#quickstart
2. Configure the `rclone` remote you want to backup to. Instructions can be found here: https://rclone.org/docs/#configure
3. `pip install unifi-protect-backup`
4. Optional: Install `ffprobe` so that `unifi-protect-backup` can check the length of the clips it downloads
# Usage
```
Usage: unifi-protect-backup [OPTIONS]
@@ -174,54 +224,7 @@ The following fields are provided to the format string:
You can optionally format the `event.start`/`event.end` timestamps as per the [`strftime` format](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior) by appending it after a `:` e.g to get just the date without the time: `{event.start:%Y-%m-%d}`
## Docker Container
You can run this tool as a container if you prefer with the following command.
Remember to change the variable to make your setup.
> **Note**
> As of version 0.8.0, the event database needs to be persisted for the tool to function properly
> please see the updated commands below
### Backing up locally
By default, if no rclone config is provided clips will be backed up to `/data`.
```
docker run \
-e UFP_USERNAME='USERNAME' \
-e UFP_PASSWORD='PASSWORD' \
-e UFP_ADDRESS='UNIFI_PROTECT_IP' \
-e UFP_SSL_VERIFY='false' \
-v '/path/to/save/clips':'/data' \
-v '/path/to/save/database':/config/database/ \
ghcr.io/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup
```
### Backing up to cloud storage
In order to backup to cloud storage you need to provide a `rclone.conf` file.
If you do not already have a `rclone.conf` file you can create one as follows:
```
$ docker run -it --rm -v $PWD:/root/.config/rclone --entrypoint rclone ghcr.io/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup config
```
Follow the interactive configuration proceed, this will create a `rclone.conf`
file in your current directory.
Finally, start the container:
```
docker run \
-e UFP_USERNAME='USERNAME' \
-e UFP_PASSWORD='PASSWORD' \
-e UFP_ADDRESS='UNIFI_PROTECT_IP' \
-e UFP_SSL_VERIFY='false' \
-e RCLONE_DESTINATION='my_remote:/unifi_protect_backup' \
-v '/path/to/save/clips':'/data' \
-v `/path/to/rclone.conf':'/config/rclone/rclone.conf' \
-v '/path/to/save/database':/config/database/ \
ghcr.io/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup
```
### Debugging
# Debugging
If you need to debug your rclone setup, you can invoke rclone directly like so:
@@ -246,7 +249,12 @@ docker run \
listremotes
```
## Credits
# Credits
- All the contributors who have helped make this project:
<a href="https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup/graphs/contributors">
<img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup" />
</a>
- Heavily utilises [`pyunifiprotect`](https://github.com/briis/pyunifiprotect) by [@briis](https://github.com/briis/)
- All the cloud functionality is provided by [`rclone`](https://rclone.org/)