Meeting Recording Archiver

01 The problem

Cloud recordings build up fast and storage runs out. Moving them by hand is the kind of chore that gets skipped until the day a recording is lost or the account is full. By then a meeting you needed is gone and there is no getting it back. The work itself is dull and easy to forget, so it slips for weeks at a time. It needs to happen on its own, on a schedule nobody has to think about, and it needs to never delete a recording it has not safely copied first.

02 The system

An automation that archives recordings on a schedule so you never touch it. Every half hour it checks the call platform for new recordings, copies each one into a dated folder in storage, logs it, and only then clears it from the source to reclaim space. The dated folders keep everything easy to find later. A running log means it never copies the same file twice, even if it runs over an old set, and an alert goes out on each pass so you always know it ran.

03 How it holds up

The order is deliberate. It deletes from the source only after the copy is verified, gated by a confirmation step, so a failed upload never costs a recording. If the copy does not check out, the source stays put and the next pass tries again. The log is the memory that keeps it safe to run over and over without duplicating or losing anything. I hardened it with an adversarial review pass that hunted down the ways it could fail and fixed each one before it could bite. The result is something I trust to run on its own without anyone watching it.

04 The result

Recordings archive themselves into tidy, dated folders, storage stays clear, and nothing is deleted until a safe copy exists. No recording gets lost, the account never fills up, and nobody spends time on it anymore. The chore that used to get skipped now just takes care of itself.