If a thief broke in and was smart enough to nab the security footage, pretty sure that person is too smart to be breaking into a place with cameras.

Or perhaps they are smart enough to break into such places :)

Just spitballing here... if the only camera is the Ring, then bypassing it seems like it would be easy. You can blind the camera with a laser without being visible yourself, then approach it and tape over the camera, or just take a rock and knock the whole thing off the wall.

1) Give the local computer a public key, and have all video get encrypted as it goes into storage.

2) Keep the associated private key protected to your preference of security and convenience.

3) Decrypt the videos when you want to view them (if you're comfortable storing the private key on your phone, the only difference to the end user should be lag -- unless they lose the private key).

How does encrypting your video help if the device that contains the video is stolen? The thief wont be able to view themselves committing the crime?

Lulz, I took xsmasher to be worried about infosec in the case of a break-in -- I hadn't considered the issue of retaining the data until just now. Having it backup the encrypted video to cloud storage mitigates that worry while still keeping the info secure, though.

That's the fault of people who are completely brain dead and leave the DVR in plane sight. Hide the damn thing far from the monitor and run an hdmi/dvi extender.

That's what I did for a friend. We hid it in a kitchen cabinet behind canned items and ran a VGA cable to the living room TV on the other side of the kitchen wall. No one would know it was there.

rsync or lftp (sftp subsystem) to a chroot sftp server with encrypted partitions.

or 7-zip encrypt video chunks and upload using above method.

In both cases, you can control the server and the data. You can hand over data that is applicable to the period of time in question and you still have your local copy.

The time delay in your suggestion means you would miss the video that is most important if someone steals things.

You can use inotify to kick off rsync for each chunk. The delay would depend on video chunk size. Put the processing machine in a locked case that is anchored to the floor. You can probably get the last few minutes of them trying to jimmie the cabinet assuming they can even find it.