OCG Technical Support
2008-May-06 19:33 UTC
[asterisk-users] Storing voicemail on samba share
A client has asked that our asterisk installation leverage their large investment in their existing data center infrastructure. We're thinking about putting the voicemail messages onto a Samba share (on their file servers). Any pros/cons to this? Does network/samba latency create choppiness? Thanks, MD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080506/1fcf5e79/attachment.htm
It would probably be wiser to run an IMAP server and do imap storage instead of writing to a cifs-mounted directory... or use ODBC storage... assuming they are running a database server somewhere. I don't have any experience with having * write voicemail files to CIFS/SMBFS, but I also think its not something I would try... I've personally always found that most network file systems don't tend to handle disconnects (server reboots, network outages, etc.) very well. Mind you, it might of come along way since the last time I tried. -- Matt From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of OCG Technical Support Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:34 PM To: 'Asterisk Users List' Subject: [asterisk-users] Storing voicemail on samba share A client has asked that our asterisk installation leverage their large investment in their existing data center infrastructure. We're thinking about putting the voicemail messages onto a Samba share (on their file servers). Any pros/cons to this? Does network/samba latency create choppiness? Thanks, MD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080506/ba755a5c/attachment.htm
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:33:31PM -0400, OCG Technical Support wrote:> A client has asked that our asterisk installation leverage their large > investment in their existing data center infrastructure. We???re thinking > about putting the voicemail messages onto a Samba share (on their file > servers). Any pros/cons to this? Does network/samba latency create > choppiness?I think a lot of that would depend on *how* you put the files there. smbclient? cifs mount? I would say write them locally, and then use a looper script to push them to the other server... though on reflection, Asterisk might not be happy with that. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin)