[asterisk-users] What is your Backup Strategy?

[Anthony Rodgers]

Hi Forrest,

This is very close to the option we use - we have 2 identical servers, 
and keep the configs the same using Visual Sourcesafe to shadow all 
changes on server1 to server2. Voicemail and other lib files are stored 
on the spare server and exported to the primary server using NFS.

If the primary server fails, DNS SRV records have the Polycom phones 
failover to the spare server. We physically move the PRIs from one 
server to the other.

Forrest Beck wrote:
>  2)  Have two servers with the same dialplan.  One in each location.
>  Each server has it's own TDM cards installed. Phones on Site A will
>  register with the server on Site A, and phones on Site B will
>  register with the server on Site B. Then using Polycom phones, they
>  will failover to using the server not on their site, if their primary
>  isn't available.  I have setup scripts to copy the dialplan from one
>  server to the other then reload asterisk nightly.  The biggest Con to
>  this is I have to be sure my dialplans don't get different.  The
>  user's voicemail wouldn't be available until their primary server is
>  back up, but that's OK.
>
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Anthony Rodgers
Business Systems Analyst
District of North Vancouver
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