[asterisk-users] How to make upgrades with Asterisk

[Danny Dias]

Thanks Zeeshan,

In fact,i have RealTime configured and working...

What i want is to make an upgrade of libpri and wanpipe at least, asterisk
and zaptel will be like i have now...

Do you think that recompile/upgrade this softwares version will produce a
problem? what steps should i do?

Is it necessary to recompile asterisk if i make an upgrade of libpri? this
recompilation will affect the realtime or the well bahavior of the server?

Working with an old version of asterisk like 1.4.21.2 with the newest
version of libpri is recommended or not?

Thanks in advance for all your advices!



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> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:15:00 -0400
> From: Zeeshan Zakaria <zishanov at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How to make upgrades with Asterisk
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> If it is a production server, you should not do the upgrade on it. Setup a
> new server with upgraded software, migrate all the data, test it and make
> sure it works fine. There are things like CDR and voicemail which are
> constantly being updated, meaning just before the final migration, you
> should copy them to the new server.
>
> I have done some migrations and have found clonezilla to be a wonderful
> tool
> for this purpose. You create a second server on any computer, and once it
> is
> ready, clone it on a USB stick or CD, or on another computer via SSH, then
> clone the production server for backup purposes on a medium of your choice,
> and finally restore this new server image on to the production server. If
> something goes wrong, you'll be able to restore the server back to its
> functional state from the backup cloned image.
>
> When I migrated my own production server from 1.2 to 1.4, I did the
> rehearsal many times, and very carefully drafted the whole migation plan.
> This also included asking all the users to copy and delete their voicemails
> before the day of migration. It took me about two weeks in planning and
> making sure every single setting will be migrated, before I was comfotable
> to do the migration, which took hardly an hour, and went just perfectly
> smooth.
>
> Personally I am of the opinion that if it is not really necessary, don't
> upgrade it. Will 1.6 give you something which you don't have in 1.4? It'll
> have its own issues and learning curve. I tried it once and it was only a
> pain for my setup, specially with real-time architecture, and a few other
> things which I can't remember now.
>
> --
> Zeeshan A Zakaria
>
>
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