[asterisk-users] Replacing PBX with Asterisk, need feedback on my new architecture.

[Steve Edwards]

On Mon, 7 May 2012, Nunya Biznatch wrote:

> It is my intention to do everything from the command line. However, 
> there will be times when I'll have Interns coming in and doing some of 
> the MAC activities, and I thought this might be an easier way for the 
> day to day to get done.

Sounds like a recipe for hard to find problems to me.

You'll change something, they'll change something, something will be 
broken.

I'd suggest one or the other.

Personally, I like plain text configuration files because I can annotate 
them with a modification history showing what I* changed, when, and why.

I can also use tools like 'diff' to compare working to broken 
configurations.

I back up all of the configuration files for all of the hosts** for all of 
the clients I administer every day. Each host runs a script to stuff 
everything I think is important into a tarball and email it to a 'backup' 
email address at my office. If I really trash something on a client host, 
I can always get the last known good files.

I have the tarballs going back 5 years so if a client every said 'hey, 
remember when you did...' I can pull a rabbit out of my hat.

*) I usually work alone or in small (2-4) teams.

**) I skip hosts that are supposed to be exact clones of other hosts.

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Thanks in advance,
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