Prerequisites

1. S3 bucket for call recordings

2. Access key and secret of IAM user having read/write access on S3 bucket

3. Region of S3 bucket like eu-central-1 for Frankfurt region

4. Linux 3CX server sudo access via putty.

Steps to follow

Install AWS CLI on the server where the phone system stores the audio files

Type sudo aws configure and enter. It will ask for access key → secret key → region. For optional file format type enter directly.

3. cd /opt

4. sudo mkdir mirage

5. cd mirage

6. sudo nano s3upload.sh

7. Copy and paste script code - Download TXT file

8. ctrl + o and enter. Then ctrl +x to exit

9. run sudo chmod +x *.sh to make file executable

10. Make test call recording

11. run sudo ./s3upload.sh and it should upload call recording

12. Check using sudo aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name --recursive

13. To create scheduler type sudo crontab -e

14. Select editor 1 for nano default if asked.

15. Go to last line enter and paste * * * * * /opt/mirage/s3upload.sh

16. Enter for new line after the command

17. ctrl + o save

18. ctrl + x exit.

19. It shud say crontab installed successfully.

20. sudo crontab -l will list all jobs

21. For test run make a call recording.

22. Go to call recording folder, e.g. cd /var/lib/3cxpbx/Instance1/Data/Recordings/ and ls to check if recording is there

23. After 1minute run - sudo aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name --recursive

24. The recording should be in s3 bucket.

25. If it works fine type sudo crontab -e

26. Change first * to 0 so it looks like 0 * * * *.

27. Make another call recording and check after 1hr.

28. Run sudo aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name --recursive to verify