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This script copies all your .jpg and .avi captures to a mounted NAS. Before it does so, it will check if there is a directory with the date of today. If it doesnt exist it will create one with the subdirectories “Videos” and “Pictures”. After that it copies the files to a non-changing local directory and then from there to the created directories on your NAS. The script can be executed via crontab.
First mount your NAS.
Mount networkshares
Second create a file named “copyjob.sh” with the code below

#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +%d_%m_%Y`
BASEPATH=/records/
COPYPATH=/records/copy/
NETPATH=/media/nasdir/
 
if [ ! -d "$NETPATH$DATE" ]; then
  mkdir $NETPATH$DATE
  mkdir $NETPATH$DATE/Videos
  mkdir $NETPATH$DATE/Pictures  
fi
 
NETPATHAVI=$NETPATH$DATE/Videos
NETPATHJPG=$NETPATH$DATE/Pictures
 
mv $BASEPATH*.avi $COPYPATH
sleep 10
mv $BASEPATH*.jpg $COPYPATH
sleep 10
 
mv $COPYPATH*.avi $NETPATHAVI
sleep 10
mv $COPYPATH*.jpg $NETPATHJPG 
sleep 10

Make sure you use

chmod +x cronjob.sh

to make it executeable.
Create a cronjob for it by inserting the following line to the end in

 vi /etc/crontab

0 * * * * /records/copyjob.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

The job will be executed everytime the clock hits 0 minutes (for example 1:00pm 2.00am…)