unifi-protect-remux VS unifi-protect-backup

If you can rsync over the .ubv files, you could use unifi-protect-remix to convert them to .mp4 files.

A feature I really liked about the Unifi Protect platform was the option to select a portion of video using a timeline slider, and it would then extract those parts and concatenate them into a downloaded file. The problem with Protect is that they use proprietary UBV files for storage and the only other way to bulk export was using a remux tool.

I came across this unifi-protect-remux github project that is supposed to convert UVB files to MP4 and might be useful. The setup there could be complicated.

https://github.com/petergeneric/unifi-protect-remux/releases worth a shot

use this remux tool to convert the video files from .ubv to .mp4

One other thing I did is I whipped up a perl script that converted all the video files from the UDM-PRO drive into mp4 files on another drive, using the unifi protect remux program. It's not the best program (I'm a sysadmin, not a software developer) but it worked for me. It took just under 30 hours to do just shy of 7TB of ubv files. I went from:

Protect does not support it but I use this https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup See my other comments below about protect/your set up.

Not exactly what you're asking for, but I use this project to upload detection events to cloud storage as they occur: https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup/

I use https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup/pkgs/container/unifi-protect-backup to download and push motion events to my OneDrive. Makes it super easy to share clips.

I use this docker container https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup, which backups the alert footage to my nas and then that gets backed up to Google drive.

I mostly just followed the instructions on the GitHub: https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup/pkgs/container/unifi-protect-backup

Use a third party solution (not an endorsement, i've never personally used this solution)