After getting my feet wet with asterisk@home, I want to set up a second asterisk box to add a call shop billing and other add-ons such as LCR. My question is as follows. Is there a backup program that will save to a tape drive or a USB CD Writer so if I mess up an install I don't have to go through a complete reinstall? I saw a few programs out there but they required X windows and from what I read it is suggested that X windows not be installed on an Asterisk box. Thanks, Jeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050324/6be6f276/attachment.htm
Jeff Glassman wrote:> My question is as follows. Is there a backup program that will save to > a tape drive or a USB CD Writer so if I mess up an install I don?t have > to go through a complete reinstall? I saw a few programs out there but > they required X windows and from what I read it is suggested that X > windows not be installed on an Asterisk box. > >I recently used G4U from: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ See if it does what you need. Steve
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:04 pm, Jeff Glassman wrote:> My question is as follows. Is there a backup program that will save to > a tape drive or a USB CD Writer so if I mess up an install I don't have > to go through a complete reinstall? I saw a few programs out there but > they required X windows and from what I read it is suggested that X > windows not be installed on an Asterisk box.tar cvf /dev/st0 /usr/local/asterisk /dev/st0 is your scsi tape drive /usr/local/asterisk is wherever your install directory is for Asterisk. To restore it, just type: tar xvf /dev/st0 ttfn. Btw, dump will not work on Linux, unless you've got a proprietary dump command installed. The default system utilities for Linux do not include dump. If your Linux is a modern distro, it might however include xfsdump which probably does the same thing as dump, but it will only work on an xfs partition. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQ5UEgYKvkeyp3F4RAugCAKClHmj/WCMYf27ASmsV3llMdqeQswCeIXdP 3J84PWP+n/AK+Udf5aubTn0=BLvc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
The "standard" UNIX backup program is called "dump". Try reading the dump manpage by typing "man dump" at the shell's prompt. This program has been in common use since maybe the late 80's Quoted from the man page: Dump examines files on an ext2/3 filesystem and determines which files need to be backed up. These files are copied to the given disk, tape or other storage medium for safe keeping.... Many sysadmins will run "dump" nightly from a crontab entry --- Steve Prior <sprior@geekster.com> wrote:> Jeff Glassman wrote: > > My question is as follows. Is there a backup program that will > save to > > a tape drive or a USB CD Writer so if I mess up an install I don’t > have > > to go through a complete reinstall? I saw a few programs out > there but > > they required X windows and from what I read it is suggested that X > > > windows not be installed on an Asterisk box. > > > > > > I recently used G4U from: > > http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ > > See if it does what you need. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 Christopher.J.Albertson@aero.org KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Rescue CD from Acronis for Linux http://www.acronis.com Works every time ... Jeff Glassman wrote:>After getting my feet wet with asterisk@home, I want to set up a second >asterisk box to add a call shop billing and other add-ons such as LCR. > >My question is as follows. Is there a backup program that will save to >a tape drive or a USB CD Writer so if I mess up an install I don't have >to go through a complete reinstall? I saw a few programs out there but >they required X windows and from what I read it is suggested that X >windows not be installed on an Asterisk box. > >Thanks, > >Jeff > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
What about imaging? We use acronis true image 8.0. You can create an image of your asterisk box within 20 minutes (120 GB HD !) and deploy it to another server in the same time. Even if changing your hardware from VIA to SIS and back to INTEL wasn't a problem for us. Btw we use Fedora Core 2 for our * servers. Regards, Guido Hecken>after getting my feet wet with asterisk@home, I want to set up a secondasterisk box >to add a call shop billing and other add-ons such as LCR.>My question is as follows. Is there a backup program that will save to atape drive or a >USB CD Writer so if I mess up an install I don't have to go through a complete >reinstall?>I saw a few programs out there but they required X windows and from what Iread it is >suggested that X windows not be installed on an Asterisk box.
I gave up on tape as being a nightmare to maintain, I now back all my servers and workstaions using backuppc. One linux server with a 5 device RAID can easily backup 100 workstatons and several servers beacuase of the pooling system used. For a smaller situation I would use 2 disks in RAID1 (mirror). Chris Mason
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:04:58PM -0500, Jeff Glassman wrote:> After getting my feet wet with asterisk@home, I want to set up a second > asterisk box to add a call shop billing and other add-ons such as LCR. > > My question is as follows. Is there a backup program that will save to > a tape drive or a USB CD Writer so if I mess up an install I don't have > to go through a complete reinstall?One nice system-backup program is mondo-rescue. It provides a complete system backup. It can build a bootable rescue CD (actually: ISO images of such a CD) which automates the recovery process even for multiple partitions. The target can be cd images, tape, remote nfs partition, local files, or whatever. http://www.mondorescue.org/ It should work very well for a system backup. The data backup should probably be done using tar or amanda or whatever.> I saw a few programs out there but > they required X windows and from what I read it is suggested that X > windows not be installed on an Asterisk box.If it requires X it is probably not designed for recovery. Naturally all tools I've mentioned here are free. -- Tzafrir Cohen | New signature for new address and | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | new homepage | a Mutt's tzafrir@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849755 | Space reserved for other protocols | friend