unifi-protect-video-downloader VS Cryptomator

I use UniFi Protect Video Downloader to accomplish this.

I've had great success with https://github.com/danielfernau/unifi-protect-video-downloader. Downloaded about 9 months of 8hr/day to do a construction timelapse.

I assume you are talking about the Protect video files being limited by the single hard drive in the UDM Pro SE. I have a cloudKey Gen plus so the drive is a 2.5". I put a 4 TB SSD in it which gives me about 30 days. For archival (90+ days) I independently record the RTSP streams to a computer that archives onto a Synology NAS with a couple of 12 TB spinners. It's not rocket science... just a bunch of bash scripts and ffmpeg. For a more professional method would check out this: https://github.com/danielfernau/unifi-protect-video-downloader

I use https://github.com/danielfernau/unifi-protect-video-downloader

Motion events would at least make it function in a act of god event. As is, takes more or less a hack to get that data -> https://github.com/danielfernau/unifi-protect-video-downloader

the best way to do this is with https://cryptomator.org

Before putting anything on a cloud service I would recommend 3rd party tools, like Cryptomator, to encrypt folders and such, then upload to a cloud service.

I use Cryptomator - https://cryptomator.org

I've used countless encryption "schemes" over the years, from True/Vera-Crypt to encrypted sparse bundles/images, and none have ever really felt right.

These days i tend to use Cryptomator[0] instead. It accomplishes what none of the others could do, which is transparent encryption across devices.

With Cryptomator, i simply create a vault somewhere in the cloud, stuff data in it, and i can access it from my laptop, phone or tablet, and not think much about it. It integrates into the normal file browsing APIs, and doesn't get in the way.

Because it does "per file" encryption, it also doesn't need to download a 20-100MB chunk from the cloud before decrypting, so it's rather fast (depending on file size of course).

[0]: https://cryptomator.org/

Cryptomator's arguably the most popular encryption software for cloud storage (you can give yourself zero-knowledge encryption by using them) - it's actually what they specialize & focus on (cloud encryption). It's 100% open source and Free to use on computers. On phones I believe it's just a 1-time fee of a few bucks ($13-14, then you have it forever) - note: their iOS offering is still new, so may be a bit unpolished at the moment.

This is the solution: https://cryptomator.org/

Cryptomator. It is made for uploading files securely to cloud storage, but works locally, is easy to use, and completely free for your use case.