Hi all,
FreePBX has been running faultless since installing. I now need to look at how the calls are stored. I do not want them to be stored on the FreePBX server due to no RAID or backup so I’d like them saved to a network NAS folder that will have permissions to allow controlled access. It can be done in a number of ways. FTP, SSH, etc…
Any ideas people?
Cheers!
Apart from the built into FreePBX backup/restore module which fits many folks needs, what are you looking for extra?
dicko, I am looking to actually put the recording onto a completely different server instead of going into the /var/spool/asterisk/monitor directory on the Asterisk server.
Reason being is the server only runs off a tiny hard drive and has no room for our call recording really.
So basically on hangup of the call, it takes it from /var/spool/asterisk/monitor and moves it to a different internal server then deletes the file from /var/spool/asterisk/monitor. The second internal server is a NAS with RAID on it which has held all our calls from when we were using Cisco Call Manager. We keep calls for 5 years.
The problem with that is that you lose your customer portal and admin interfaces in FreePBX to download or play the extant recordings.
You could mount a foreign (nas) directory over your /var/spool/asterisk/monitor directory, but if the mount fails , then you are in a pickle, iscsi or drbd would help that but probably a good use of the “Post Call Recording Script” in Advanced settings will assuage your insecurity, add a cron job to delete calls over N days in /var/spool/asterisk/monitor and you are all set.
Just been playing and come up with this…
scp -r /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/ [email protected]:/Users/freepbxdevbup/callscopytest/
rm -rf /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/
It does exactly what I need.
How do I combine these into a cronjob and execute it say every evening at 00:01?
I am from a Mac background so just drag and drop normally (embarrassed) 
Cheers!
to combine and wrap (using ssh by default, but chose youer shell)
/usr/bin/rsync -a --remove-source-files /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/ [email protected]:/Users/freepbxdevbup/callscopytest/
in general rsync is much more efficient than scp.
As to the cron job, surely even a Mac User can drag and drop:-
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=create+a+cron+job+in+linux
into safari?
I get… -bash: rsync: command not found
(hmm . . what distribution are you using ?)
yum -y install rsync
sorted - just needed to install rsync
oh you beat me to it 
So if i set a cronjob up and sort a key out so i don’t need to enter a password, that’ll sort that!
Cheers!!!
IWFM aparty from unnecessarily breaking your user/admin portals.