[Asterisk-Users] fault tolerant asterisk system

[Matt]

I would say if you want true redundancy.. rsync your files on each
system.. have RAID on each system, and use a load balancing switch.

Incidentally... infocus@?  Nortel? (eek did I just utter a bad word?)

On Apr 5, 2005 7:53 AM, Infocus <infocus at todave.com> wrote:
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> I am looking to create an asterisk system with failover in case one asterisk
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> Current hardware: 
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> 2 asterisk boxes (P3 950mhz gateway server and an older dell) w/128MB RAM
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> 1 RAID5 server with 2 SATA HD's 
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>  I want Asterisk to take over active calls when one server fails.  I may
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> What do you all think about this arrangement… my only concern is if my RAID
> server goes down, both asterisk clones become unusable. Would I be better
> off storing files on one asterisk box and then rsync with a cron job every 1
> minute?  Would it be better to have both servers running at the same time
> and processing calls, with the data stored on the server? 
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> A side question would be: if one asterisk box got overloaded with calls,
> could it roll over to the second box?  
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>  Thanks for the advice/opinions, in advance! 
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