[Asterisk-bsd] Diskless Asterisk Server

[Tim St. Pierre]

Asterisk can get / write nearly all it's dynamic data from a database, making 
a read-only partition quite useable.

You can do voicemail using ODBC last i checked.  CDRs can be written to a 
database easily.  Your root partition does not have to be writeable - you 
could mount an NFS share once things were up and running, and put your 
voicemail there (probably easier than DB storage of voicemail.  


On Tuesday 08 April 2008 17:12, Frank Griffith wrote:
> "Tim St. Pierre" <tim at communicatefreely.net> wrote:  I'm just getting onto
> a similar path - although not with Asterisk.
>
> When you say diskless, do you mean booting from a read-only device, or do
> you mean netbooting of some sort.
>
> The big question, is what do you have available for storage?
>
> There are lots of nice ways to make asterisk get configuration from a
> network, and return logs and CDRs there. Are you doing everything on a
> local CF card?
>
> If that be the case, perhaps a file-backed ram disk for things like CDR and
> voicemail data. This could be set up to periodically write back to the
> flash memory. You could make it save the data on shutdown, but an unclean
> shutdown would cause you to lose voicemail and CDR information.
>
> Either way, lots of ram is important.
>
> If you are doing this on a scrap computer, you can pick up an IDE to CF
> card adaptor pretty cheap (around $20) and build it on a CF card. Then when
> you do get that Soekris machine, just move the card over.
>
> Good luck with it!
>
> -Tim
>
> On Sunday 06 April 2008 22:08, Frank Griffith wrote:
> > Okay, I know I'm probably pushing the envelope but I
> > did loads of experimenting with diskless setup this
> > past week. Getting past all the outdates docs, typos
> > and bad information was difficult, but this weekend I
> > got the diskless client to boot and got some of the
> > advanced configuration done with it. And I even got it
> > to work with 8.0-CURRENT.
> >
> > Of course, now I would like to setup a diskless
> > machine to run Asterisk. I don't have any dough left
> > after paying my income tax to buy a Soekris box so I'm
> > making do with an older machine that has lost use of
> > it's hard drive.
> >
> > Can anyone offer me some pointers on how I could
> > advance this process. I like asterisk as my phone
> > system but the thought of having to buy hard drives
> > every few years is starting to make me think, who
> > needs them when the diskless process could take their place.
> >
> >
> >
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