[asterisk-users] Live Recording on the Storage Server?

[Ryan Wagoner]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Bryant Zimmerman <BryantZ at zktech.com>wrote:

A simple way that we use to do the move is to create a cron job that looks
> for a .move file.
> It has the same name as the recorded file. asterisk writes the .move file
> which is just a text file with some stats in it.
> The .move file is written from the dial plan  at the end of the recording.
> In the exten = h we write a .delete file for an abandon call.
>
> The cron then processes the .move and .delete files at a given interval.
> We actually write special instructions into our .move files that the cron
> parses and can then act accordingly. So we have a single smart cron job
> handling moves for each type of task. In some cases our .delete files are
> processed as moves to an abandon cache for recovery if a customer did not
> intend to abandon it.
>
> The sky's the limit on how complex you want to make it, but in the long
> run it is fairly simple and it just works.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bryant Zimmerman (ZK Tech Inc.)
> 616-855-1030 Ext. 2003
>
>
We record locally and move the files to the storage server with a cron job
once a minute. The script uses lsof to check to see if Asterisk is writing
to the file.

/usr/sbin/lsof | grep filename | wc -l

Thanks,
Ryan
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