Retrieving wav files and meta data from asterisk - How?

I need some advice, because I know almost nothing about asterisk. I work for a call recording company. We design our own windows based recorders. We have an application that can collect the calls and meta data from these recorders to store on a SQL server. We would like to be able to also collect calls and meta data from asterisk recorder. Could someone please be so kind as to point me in the right direction.

I have the following questions:

  1. Where and how is the calls stored?
  2. How would we go about accessing them?
  3. Is there an API that could help us to perform the action of copying the calls and meta data from Asterisk?

Probably really stupid questions, but hey!.. we all have to start somewhere.
Eagerly awaiting any response.

Hi

Glad you have seen the light and come over from the dark side :wink:

Ok your questions

  1. Where and how is the calls stored?

You can define this in the asterisk.conf or in the relevent part of the dialplan

  1. How would we go about accessing them?

PHP or ftp or whatever method of file transfer you like

  1. Is there an API that could help us to perform the action of copying the calls and meta data from Asterisk?

Not realy PHP and scritping is your friend here. also store the files with logical names such as callid_date_info.wav etc

Ian