bbb-record --delete/--rebuild/--deleteall ignores "video" folder

[pielonet]

Hi,

Although BBB API's getRecordings call lists mp4 recordings of type "video" present in subfolders of /var/bigbluebutton/published/video/, BBB script bbb-record ignores this folder and actions like bbb-record --deleteall do not delete subfolders of this folder. This leads to BBB API falsly listing recordings that the administrator thought he/she had deleted.

It looks like bbb-record expects to find a file named video.rb in folder /usr/local/bigbluebutton/core/scripts/process in order to take the "video" format into account for rebuilding or deleting files, as referenced here : https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/blob/e905d08f3db596e81ce1006b58baeaef35665496/bigbluebutton-config/bin/bbb-record#L87

Could you please take action with the developers of BigBlueButton to fix this inconsistency ?
This is all the more annoying that my personal scripts rely on the results of BBB API to determine if a BBB server still has remaining recordings.

Kind regards,
Thierry

[danielpetri1]

Hi Thierry,
thanks for reporting this inconsistency on this repo as well. I'll be in touch with BBB developers to hopefully implement this script as a proper format.

I think a dirty fix for DELETEALL would be manually adding
rm -rf "${PUBLISHED_DIR:?}"/video/*
on this line:
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/blob/e905d08f3db596e81ce1006b58baeaef35665496/bigbluebutton-config/bin/bbb-record#L460

Similarly, for delete:
rm -rf "${PUBLISHED_DIR:?}"/video/"$MEETING_ID"*
On line
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/blob/e905d08f3db596e81ce1006b58baeaef35665496/bigbluebutton-config/bin/bbb-record#L427

Hope this helps for now.
Daniel