<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ray,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Have you considered using a VM architecture?</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; ; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12px; ">Bryan M. 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font-family: Geneva; font-size: 9px; ">iaxtel: 700:248:2637 x:1500</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><A href="http://www.sheltonjohns.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><B style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.sheltonjohns.com</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 5, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Ray Jackson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi all,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I am attempting to build a horizontally scalable Asterisk deployment and am getting very close to achieving that goal.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>With Asterisk 1.4 I now have an IMAP backend for Voicemail messages which is great as users can check the same messages either through the voice portal or using Webmail.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>However, I'm not sure the best way of dealing with personalised greetings such as a user's unavailable/busy message etc. Despite the IMAP backend these greetings appear to be stored on the local file system under /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default, which means if I build a farm of Asterisk servers - each will have it's own spool directory.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>My aim is to have *nothing* stored locally at all...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If there a way of storing these greetings in a database table or using IMAP?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I saw the ODBC voicemail storage module, but I would prefer to stick with a REALTIME/IMAP backend?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If I mount the /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail directory remotely using a shared NFS mount on a NAS device will this work okay or lead to problems/race conditions etc.?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Any advice would be welcome!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Regards,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ray</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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