VICIdial recording folders

 Stages:

1: /var/spool/asterisk/monitor - During the call (representing "don't mess with this", usually a virtual drive for speed)
2: /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE - After the call (representing "ok, process this")
3: /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/ORIG - After compression, this file contains the "now redundant" uncompressed file. Can be deleted immediately. but keep the folder, just delete the files inside.
4: /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/MP3 - After compression, the MP3 is dropped here indicating "ready for permanent storage" (this is a TEMPORARY folder, files here will not stay long)
5: /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/FTP - After the FTP process pushes the file to an FTP service, the MP3 file is moved from MP3 to FTP to indicate archiving has completed. If everything worked as planned, this file is now redundant.
6: /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/FTP2 - If, however, you have a "redundant backup" configured and are pushing files to a 2nd FTP server, the ".mp3" that was in the FTP folder will get pushed to the 2nd FTP service, and then the file will be moved from FTP to FTP2 indicating that process has completed as well.

The recording scripts in the crontab manage the movement via FTP and FTP2. Each script has its own options (avilable by running the script with "--help" after it) and notes in the trunk /DOCS/ folder and manual.

https://vicidialforum.com/threads/recordings-directory.20646/