PBX Mgr MTE Backup

It is the whole PBX that gets backed up.

I am also considering doing something like tenant export/import which could be used for migration to a different box or a dedicated PBX.

I wonder if people may find this useful.

Sounds interesting.

I'm trying to set up a failover system in another data center in another town. My goal is to use Edgemarc 4500 routers in "survivability mode" so that they fail over to the secondary sip server if the primary fails.

I set up scripts today to scp my daily backup file to my backup server. I seem to be able to untar the backup on the backup server and have a replica of my production system. My last reamining problem is to have a way to configure it so that I have different inbound trunks on each of the two servers and have (for example) Trunk1 enabled on one server and Trunk2 enabled on the other.

In a true disaster I could then go to my sip trunking provider and switch my DIDs from one trunk to the other to direct calls to the backup server.

dozment,

Please contact me at mdarnell at gmail . com

I would love to chat about your solution and discuss what we are doing. Perhaps we can collaborate.

-Matt

I would find the tenant export/import feature very useful:

- Move customers between MTEs

- Move customer between MTE and STE (at least from MTE to STE)

- Take your own medicine - move your own setup to next new server

- Hibernate a tenant

- Change tenant ID (for controlling access to call pickup groups)

- Templates (No need for the thirdlane template)

- For experts: Offline editing a tenant

- Backup before

- And more...

/Ole

Is there a difference between restoring a backup on a new server and exporting the entire tenant base? Can a backup be used on a new, unconfigured MTE?

a backup will overwrite anything on the other machine so if you had Tenant A,B,C on Box 1 and Tenant D,E,F on Box 2 restoring Box1's configs on Box2 will result in box2 having Tenants A,B,C and you'll lose D,E,F with the exception of recorded files and voicemail directories.

'cause I just restored from backup to a new system. it was like butter, baby...now I guess I have 30 days to get my main server rebuilt and upgraded.

Unfortunately not all has gone well from the restoral. For some reason, all restored extensions have stopped sending the outbound caller id number. Also, the cool asterisk on hold music is gone. Of course I have exceeded license issues all over the place...

Hopefully i can get all this back on the Primary. At least my customers can still make and get calls, so its not like everything is on fire.