[arm-allstar] How difficult would it be to maybe add this feature to a future update to the audio archive feature?

[Doug Crompton]

Terry,

 I did some testing of my hypothesis that I sent earlier and it needed some
massaging. This works -

rsync -Ravm --remove-source-files --include=`date -d "yesterday"
+%Y%m%d*.wav` --exclude '*' . `date -d "yesterday" +node-archive-%Y%m%d`

So if you had the files -

20180104_1.wav  20180104_2.txt  20180104_2.wav

In the directory this was run in it would create the directory

node-archive-20180105

with the contents -

ls node-archive-20180105/

20180105_1.wav  20180105_2.wav

This assumes the current date is 20180106. It further assumes the files you
are archiving have the date first then some text with a .wav extent. This
can be changed in the rsync line if necessary as can the name of the
archive directory.  This example removes the source files after copying to
the destination directory. If you want to keep them remove the
--remove-source-files directive.

I suggest you create a test directory populate it with some file that have
the names and correct dates of the files you want to archive and test run
this. You can create dummy files like this:

cd /
mkdir test
cd test
>20180105_test.wav
>20180105_test2.wav
etc.

Remember the date has to be yesterday. Then run the rsync line. It should
create the archive in the same directory and delete the source files you
created.

Once you get this working you could run it with a cron job daily to archive
yesterdays files.

Again if you need help with this let me know.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*




On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:35 AM, "Terry Bethlehem via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> For me, I'd like a feature that creates a folder, on your external drive,
> each day, with its contents. Say for example, at midnight, the pi creates a
> folder named 20180105, and dumps all the audio files in it. When the next
> day comes, it creates a new folder then dumps the files in the new folder.
> I don't know how many people that actually use this feature, would really
> like this or don't care. I archive all the files, to my pc, when my node is
> offline for the day. I create folders with the date. I scroll through
> thousands of files, for a single day, to move them to the appropriate date
> folder I created on my pc. Automating this would be awesome for me. I don't
> know how many agree with my suggestion. I also know you guys have other
> things you're trying to improve and implement.
>
> Any input is appreciated. I'm just wishing for a little bit of automated
> housekeeping, instead of plowing through thousands of wav files, trying to
> find what I'm looking for. I'm not a scripter yet.
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