Scheduled task for RT-AC3200 - How to do it?

[João Paulo]

Hello. First of all, sorry for my bad english.

I have a USB HDD conected to my ASUS RT-AC3200 router. FTP server is enabled in the router. I have an IP camera recording via FTP. The camera software lacks the option to delete older than 30 days recordings and my USB HDD is filling up quickly.

How can I schedule my router, once a day, to delete older than 30 days files from a specific directory in that USB HDD?

This is the directory: ftp://192.168.1.1/Seagate_Expansion_Drive/ALPHAVILLE_CAM1/FI9805W_00626E4CD600/record/

Router's ip is 192.168.1.1
Router's login name is "admin"

Right now I have the stock asus firmware 3.0.0.4.382_50624 but I can update to Merlin's if it is needed to do this job. I don't know very much about the language, the scripts required. I can update the firmware if needed, I can enable the jffs partition, access the router via telnet with putty, but I would need detailed instructions on the script itself. I would also like the script to work even when the router is restarted.

Is this possible?

Thank you,
João Paulo

 

[João Paulo]

Please, can an admin delete my old thread (link below)? I posted it in the wrong section.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/scheduled-task-for-rt-ac3200-how-to-do-it.48261/

Thanks.

 

[ColinTaylor]

You would probably need to install Merlin's firmware and then create 2 user scripts.

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/User-scripts


/jffs/scripts/services-start

#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/cru a DeleteFiles "30 06 * * * /jffs/scripts/delete-files.sh"

/jffs/scripts/delete-files.sh

#!/bin/sh

DIR="/tmp/mnt/Seagate_Expansion_Drive/ALPHAVILLE_CAM1/FI9805W_00626E4CD600/record"

if [ -d $DIR ]
then
        find $DIR -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;
fi

This will run the script at 06:30 every day and delete all files older than 30 days.

 

[João Paulo]

Thank you! I will give it a try tomorrow.