[asterisk-users] Remote Office, Centrally Shared Voicemail

[Anthony Messina]

On Friday 30 November 2007 12:26:33 pm Matthew Yingling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a remote office with its own Asterisk Server they'll
> have a dedicated land line, but we'll still want them connected to the main
> office via VOIP (IAX2 via VPN).  I've tested using IAX2 to bridge between
> the offices based on extensions, since the extensions we want to share are
> in isolated blocks of numbers.  I'm not sure how to handle voicemail
> though. I'd like to link the voicemail so that local calls to either office
> will call extensions and leave voicemail with the appropriate parties.  I'd
> like to avoid "Please call a new number" messages.  I have some ideas:
>
> 1.  Use central network storage for both offices - if the remote VPN goes
> down, the remote office can't connect to the voicemail storage, so they
> can't see old voicemail, and may lose new voicemail.
>
> 2.  Use local storage for all voicemail.  Only the local office can see or
> receive voicemail.  This would require a "Please call a new number"
> message, I think.
>
> 3.  Implement some sort of backup script - use local storage for each
> office, then periodically sync voicemail folders over the VPN.

if you duplicated the accounts in your voicemail config, you should be able to 
use rsync and a cron job to keep the voicemail spools synchronized.

-- 
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