[Asterisk-Users] Issues of reliability, hardware, platforms

[Steve Kann]

Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:

>I'm sure this has been debated before, I'd like to get peoples input. I see
>the hard drive as the single most likely point of failure on an * PBX. How
>reasonable would it be to run the OS and config files from a CF card, mount
>the /var/partition on a hard drive for the CDR recortds, logs and databases,
>and do some kind of test on bootup that would turn off those features if the
>hard drive was unavailable (failed)?
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>I am messing around with a firewall that mounts from a cf card, it got me
>thinking about asterisk from a cf card, as there would be little chance of
>failure.
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This all assumes that CF cards are more reliable than hard drives (and 
power supplies).

>Other than that, what have you done to ensure reliability. I am planning a
>RAID1 hard drive install for my serious pbx customers, in my experience that
>makes for a very reliable machine.
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The best solution is a cluster setup, with multiple machines, and no 
single point of failure.

-SteveK