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Hi Adam, Thanks for your reply. Thats pretty much what i'm looking at doing. This system from Swann looks like an affordable solution: http://www.swann.com/s/products/view/?product=1160 BUT...the biggest issue i have is that if an intruder takes the dvr then everything is lost. Do you know of any systems like this that allow me to ftp the footage offsite? I'm not short of bandwidth or online storage. If someone was to take equipment from my office, chances are they'd take the 5 mins to follow the cables back to where the dvr would be located and make sure to take it also...so an offsite back up is the only system that would realistically make sense.

I'm a newbie and would very much appreciate your input and suggestions! I'd like to set up 2x security cameras at my office. no need for ptz cameras. the cameras can connect via wifi or ethernet, poe is preferable but otherwise there's plenty of power available. i'd like to: record off site for 31 days be able to sort through recordings by time or event. view footage through browser or smart phone as it's an office, there'll be a lot of motion in the course of a day, so i don't want to be receiving alerts every time someone moves from their desks. the footage would only be used to review if some of our equipment went missing or if there was un-authorised access. i have broadband with a static ip. i have various cloud storage options in use already, Amazon S3, dropbox, idisk- can i utilise any of those to store footage rather than paying the excessive monthly fees that make most systems not practically affordable for a small business? if i did that then how complicated would it be to review footage? ideally i'd like not to spend more than $300 for this system.