[asterisk-users] Storing voicemail on samba share

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:33:31PM -0400, OCG Technical Support wrote:
>    A client has asked that our asterisk installation leverage their large
>    investment in their existing data center infrastructure.  We’re thinking
>    about putting the voicemail messages onto a Samba share (on their file
>    servers).  Any pros/cons to this?  Does network/samba latency create
>    choppiness?

I think a lot of that would depend on *how* you put the files there.

smbclient?  cifs mount?

I would say write them locally, and then use a looper script to push
them to the other server... though on reflection, Asterisk might not be
happy with that.

Cheers,
-- jra
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