asterisk users - Dec 2007 - Digium Asterisk Appliance voicemail & logs

Does anyone know how much space the appliance has for voicemail and/or logs?
Doesn't have an embedded disk from what I can see, and only a 1G flash card?


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Barry D. Hassler
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Barry D. Hassler wrote:
> Does anyone know how much space the appliance has for voicemail and/or
> logs? Doesn't have an embedded disk from what I can see, and only a 1G
> flash card?
Correct. Nearly all of the 1GB CompactFlash card is available for
voicemail, logs, CDRs, etc, and of course larger CompactFlash cards can
easily be used.

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)

Here is some information I received from my account rep at Digium regarding this
information:

------------------ Digium ------------------

That's news to me as well as the rest of the sales team. We were told that
users cannot change the 1gb flash card.

I just spoke with one of the Sales Engineers and he stated that it is apparently
possible to change out the flash card on the AA50. However, it is not supported
because the read/write speeds could be different on a new flash card, and thus
not work.

------------------

Also here is what I was told when I asked my digium rep if we could nfs or samba
mount additional storage space to the appliance (since it does run on linux).

------------------ Digium ------------------

It is not possible to do so. However, the 1gb Flash card on the appliance will
store up to 3000 minutes worth of voicemail.

------------------

Sincerely,
Gregory Malsack
President
Classic Services
Select Digium Reseller

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Barry D. Hassler wrote:
> Does anyone know how much space the appliance has for voicemail and/or
> logs? Doesn't have an embedded disk from what I can see, and only a 1G
> flash card?
Correct. Nearly all of the 1GB CompactFlash card is available for
voicemail, logs, CDRs, etc, and of course larger CompactFlash cards can
easily be used.

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)

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>That is correct; we would not recommend using just *any* CF card, as the
>write speed of the card needs to be pretty high to be able support
>multiple voicemail messages being written simultaneously. With that
>said, though, it is possible to use a higher capacity CF card, but my
>previous response that said it was 'easy' was a bit of an
overstatement
>:-) It can be done, and our support department does know how to get you
>the files you would need to populate the replacement card.
Kevin,

In terms of ease, what is actually stored on the card, is it possible to simply
place the card in a cf reader connected to a usb port on a linux box, tar up the
contents and untar the contents on a larger cf card? Or is this something that
would require a dd?

Greg

p.s. Sorry to put you over the coals... you can punch jarron b. for that one ;P

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Yea, sounds like they've planned for this issue. Kevin, is there an sdk that
can be used to create our own binaries should we want to add modular support for
something? Like say mysql cdr's?

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On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 14:16 -0600, Kevin P. Fleming
wrote:
> No. The files to repopulate the CF card are available to users who 
> have active support subscriptions and they can replace the card. Users 
> can also, of course, make a backup copy of the card on a new card when 
> they receive the unit and have a ready-to-install replacement should 
> any problems occur.
That's all fair enough then.  I was just concerned with the message that was
being sent along with the "replacing the CF card is unsupported"
message.

b.


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Gregory Malsack wrote:
> In terms of ease, what is actually stored on the card, is it possible to
simply place the card in a cf reader connected to a usb port on a linux box, tar
up the contents and untar the contents on a larger cf card? Or is this something
that would require a dd?
Yes, using tar/untar would work fine.

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)