[asterisk-users] Record calls as BLOB into MySQL?

[A J Stiles]

On Friday 31 August 2012, Stefan at WPF wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> is it possible, to record calls directly as BLOB into a MySQL database?
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Stefan

Yes, it's possible, with some heavy hacking  (and it ends up creating an 
unredistributable binary -- you can't comply with all the provisions of all 
the licences involved, and the only thing allowing you to use it at all is the 
fair dealing provision of copyright law);  but the real question is, *why* 
would you want to do it?

Unix already provides a perfectly good filesystem for storing files.  Just 
record your call to a file as normal, and stick the filename and whatever 
metadata you like in the database.  Job's a good 'un!

-- 
AJS

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