[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail storage in DB

[WipeOut]

Darren Nay wrote:

> Hey all,
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> Quick Question.  I have heard mention that Asterisk has the capability 
> to store voicemail inside a database, instead of storing each 
> voicemail in a separate file under a spool directory.  Is this true?
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> If so, does it (or can it) use MySQL?  Is there any documentation 
> available showing how to do this?
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> The problem that we are having is that we need redundant voicemail 
> servers and in order to do that we would need to replicate the 
> voicemail "spool" directory to each redundant server ... we haven't 
> been able to find an efficient -yet- cost effective method for this.  
> However, if we can use a mysql database for voicemail storage then I 
> can set up mysql database replication and our problem is solved.
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> Thanks so much for your help!
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> Darren Nay - dnay at ionosphere.net <mailto:dnay at ionosphere.net>
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AFAIK you cannot store the vm file in the DB, only the vm config can be 
stored in the db..

Have you thought of mounting the spool directolr on an NFS file server 
and then letting the servers all share the same storeage facility?? not 
sure if there would be any file locking issues..

Later..