[asterisk-users] Updating Asterisk and its use with MySQL

[Jim Dickenson]

Make sure not to do "make samples" or you will overwrite your .conf file. This is the important one to watch out for. You can save off your .conf files and then restore them or compare your files with the new ones to see if there are any important new settings.
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Jim Dickenson
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On Mar 28, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote:

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> Hi all!
> 
> I'm using Asterisk 1.4.24.1 with dahdi-linux-2.1.0.4 and
> dahdi-tools-2.1.0.2 compiled by myself with the source code of the
> official site of the project. I would like to update to one more newer
> version. I suppose that the recommendable thing is to maintain me in
> branch 1.4, reason why in this case it would be 1.4.30 that I suppose
> that it will have several bugs fixed.
> 
> Also I see that there are new versions of DADHI Linux and DAHDI Tools;
> 2.2.1.1 for both cases. I image DAHDI Complete package include both
> DAHDI Linux an DAHDI tools. For this package it is necessary to continue
> making the compilation separately?
> 
> But going to the question to that I make mention in subject, which would
> be the procedure to update the versions of these software maintaining
> the configurations? It is correct to think that the procedure would be
> to stop the Asterisk server and DAHDI, and to follow the same steps for
> the compilation and installation but without doing "make config"?
> 
> On the other hand, at this moment I'm testing with few extensiones on
> low scale, but my idea is to raise the test a little more 50 extensions.
> For this case I suppose that it is more efficient to work with a
> database management system (MySQL, for example) for the configurations
> instead of files. There is some procedure that can recommend to me to
> migrate the configurations in files to a DBMS?
> 
> My idea is to continue making the configurations by hand at the moment,
> that it is the way that I used until now, to familiarize to me with the
> handling of Asterisk at lower level, without using a graphical
> interface, and in a later stage of the tests to take these
> configurations through something like FreePBX. What think of this form
> to think?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your reply and recommendations.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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