[Asterisk-Users] Migrating Asterisk

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jay Milk wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> My asterisk installation has now been running for over two months
> without a hitch, and I've decided it's time to move things around a bit.
> It's currently installed on a 2.7GHz Celeron under RH9 installed on a
> 10GB "leftover" drive.  Thanks to the strange marketing method called
> "Mail-In-Rebate", I have a fresh 160GB drive ($50), and I'm itching to
> install a GenToo Linux distro.
> 
> I also have a 1.2ish GHz Duron with Mobo sitting around here, which may
> just be enough to power my (barely ever transcoding) asterisk install.
> Should be enough, even if one channel were transcoded occasionally, no?

I run Asterisk on a Pentium 133 w/ 16 megs of ram and routinely have 2-3 
ulaw to g726 transcoded sessions going on.

Works just peachy. The max I've ever done is 6 channels before I started 
having some dropouts in audio. 

So a Duron 1.2 Ghz should do just fine. ;)
 
> Let's say I start with a fresh machine, GenToo (2.4 Kernel), and a
> recent Asterisk (which one?  I'm running HEAD from 05/02/2004 right now,
> heavy on SIP, no problems), and move one of my two X100P for the timing
> source... Would it be enough to copy over the Asterisk config and VM
> files?  (yes, yes, they'll share IP addresses, so I don't have to
> reconfigure my devices)
> 
> So...
> 1) 1.2Ghz Duron, enough for transacoding a single channel?
> 2) X100P sufficient timing device for *?
> 3) Which * source does the list recommend?
> 4) \var\lib\asterisk, \etc\asterisk and zaptel.conf are all that's
> needed to migrate the current state of *?


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