[asterisk-users] Minimizing downtime during updates

[Karl Fife]

"Dave Fullerton" <dfullertasterisk at shorelinecontainer.com> wrote:
> You can also just grab and un-tar the sound files by hand from:
> http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/

Good point because the MOH files would need to be bulled down manually if 
you want to minimize downtime AND you choose to offer wideband MOH tracks to 
calling parties (and perhaps other native codecs).  It is my observation 
that "make sounds" target does not fetch those MOH tracks (as I would have 
expected), rather they are only fetched during 'make install', (increasing 
downtime).

Does anyone know if there is in fact a distinct target in the makefile that 
pulls these down, and if not, why they're not pulled down as a matter of 
course with "make sounds" if specified in makefile.makeopts.

-Karl




>
> On a side note, why does the sounds directory not display in the
> directory listing when looking at
> http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/ ?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Fullerton" <dfullertasterisk at shorelinecontainer.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Minimizing downtime during updates


> Karl Fife wrote:
>> I was about to ask this question when I figured out the answer by combing
>> through the makefile.
>> I am posting this anyway because I think it's good to know, and I didn't
>> find any threads that speak to it when I searched the list history.
>>
>> My Question was:
>> When updating Asterisk, the sound tarballs for the selected codecs are 
>> not
>> retreived until running make install.  This adds unnecessarily to the
>> downtime when updating versions because Asterisk has to be stopped while
>> running make install.  I wanted a simple way to pre-fetch these files to 
>> a
>> local repository to speed up the actual install routine, instead of 
>> slowing
>> it by the arbitrary duration of the fetch/download process which robs
>> valuable NINES from uptime :-)
>>
>> I discovered that after running make, you can run 'make sounds' before
>> shutting down the service.  This cuts all of the download time from the
>> install process minimizing service downtime to a fraction of what it 
>> would
>> othewise be.
>
> You can also just grab and un-tar the sound files by hand from:
> http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/
>
> On a side note, why does the sounds directory not display in the
> directory listing when looking at
> http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/ ?
>
> -Dave
>
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