[Asterisk-Users] Backup/Failover * Server

[Dave Weis]

On Tue, 6 May 2003, John Todd wrote:
> Take a look on Google or Sourceforge for scripts to do hot failovers 
> where one server will pick up the IP address of another during a 
> problem, or there are also routing tricks you can do for this. 
> Suffice to say, there is nothing inherent in Asterisk that provides 
> "failover" at the IP layer; you'll need some generic external server 
> redundancy tool to handle that.

I've used keepalived (www.keepalived.org) with good success for other
apps. 

dave


> >is there any way to do a failover/backup * server?  I know that the 
> >Cisco SIP sets have a proxy backup option but how does * handle 
> >that?  can 2 VM servers mount the same spool/*/vm dir's ?
> >
> >I dont care about in call failure,  just want them to be able to 
> >pick up the line again and dial out with a backup server
> >
> >I think I can just keep the * config file synced and that might 
> >work.  anyone tried this?
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
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