Schedule Daily Job on Deletion of Old Recordings

I previously wrote an entry on freeing up space in Vicidial by deleting old recordings and log files (see here). Previously, I didn't have to do this frequently. Now, I have to perform this every 2-3 days thanks to the high volume of calls.

With that, I learned that scheduling this job daily saves me a lot of time from having to do this manually by editing the cron file.

Type in SSH: 

crontab -e

Add to the bottom then save

### remove WAV files and remove log file daily at after office hours
30 18 * * * rm -f /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/ORIG/*.wav
30 18 * * * rm -f /var/log/httpd/*
35 18 * * * sudo reboot

For this job I've scheduled, it's set to delete old WAV files and logs at 6:30pm then reboot at 6:35pm every day. For more info on the how to add jobs in cron, check here.

Deleting Recordings from a Specific Date in Vicidial

How does one delete recordings from a specific date? It's a good thing that vicidial recordings are named by date. In my case, the recordings we use are in MP3 format.

For example here, if I wanted to delete all MP3's from March 19, 2016, I just need to use the command below:

rm -f /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/MP3/20160319*.mp3

It would be helpful in freeing up space if the original .WAV files are also deleted since they eat up a lot of space. This isn't a date-specific command since we only need the MP3's.

rm -f /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/ORIG/*.wav 

To free up more space, check here:
http://simplevicidial.blogspot.com/2016/04/no-mysqlsock-because-root-partition-is.html 

*Another thing I learned: Sometimes, you just need to reboot to free up space.