Backup - Restore to new server

Hi,

There is another thread or two that help with this. I have a tyhread urnning that is similar. See the reply so far. Search for ptemplin7 or look for production to development transfer.
There is another on backups that has a link to this site: cat24.net/Mondoarchive.html
This sounds like it would take care of you.

Best wishes,
Paris

dd is your friend. do a dd to your new drive.

It'll autodetect the new hardware when it boots up.

Ans:
dd - convert and copy a file. In the context of this thread its a way of reading from and writing blocks of data to disks.

run the command ' man dd ' at the console and you will get the manual page or you can google for ' linux dd ' here are some of the answers

http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/036.html or http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1320

this is the wikipedia version

hth
John

Hello,

My builds of TB are simpel and straiht, out off the box only the a few config files I had to change and the programming off all extentions ect.

So at the first I build a system from de CD and make it working in the basic´s (that would be one trunk, a few extentions ect) ) I place all update´s and everything what is neasery, and thinks what you have change on the old from standard.

Then I put the new box on for a couple off day´s so your hardware is `burn´t in`

Then I connect with a MySQL client to the old TB box and to the new one and I coppied two database´s from the old one to the new one `asterisk and asteriskcdrdb` the other db I don´t use.

I go to the freepbx interface and puch the red bar. In the mean time I disconnect the old box from the network. Then I go if ready on the new box to the network interface and give the new one the ip adress off the old one.
Then one are to .conf to set well sip nat.conf ect
And you have a workingreplacement off the old one.

This only works if you not change very mutch on a standard install

I also made on this way `complex` setup´s for other configuration. If i get a job I collect the two database´s )for programming you only need one (asteriks) upload it to my test machienne, programming everything again are expanding extentions, pick up, groups ext make a dump a go to the client and uplaod it their again. Puch the red buton and all new programming had be done.

Regards

John

Should not the Backup and Restore option work? If I run a backup on the old server, using the untility in FreePBX, (Asterisk:FreePBX:tools:Backup & Restore) then copy the .tar.gz file created with that backup job to the new server in the correct directory ( /var/lib/asterisk/backups) and then restore it from the Backup and Restore utility - it shows the file I moved from the old server - should that not work?

Do I need to go into the new server and create an IVR, Trunks, Routes, Extensions, etc... for some reason before I do the restore? I've read people say they created an extension before they did the restore.

Something is fundamentally wrong when I follow this process, because it does nothing, and the options when I do the restore are limited.

The control environment broke down, but this is exactly what did this afternoon right before it worked.

1. I prayed to God, something I should have done first.
2. I went into FreePBX and created a simple IVR, Trunk, Outbound Route, saved a Recording - I had created a simple extension earlier (this process took about 1 minute - i just went into these area and made a change, saved it, and clicked the red button)
3. I uploaded the latest backup file from the old server. I've been FTPing the file to a FTP site, then pulling the .tar.gz file down to the new server using WGET. Talking to a friend yesterday - he said to make sure I was uploading in Binary mode and not ASCII mode. I uploaded in standard mode (ASCII - which I'd been doing mainly), then I uploaded in Binary and there was a file size difference - not much, but enough to make me think.
4. I rebooted the server last night.

I then went to restore a backup, and - all the restore options then showed up. I restored, and everything is now showing up.

Thanks for the help. I'm gonna work with dd some, in the development environment, for not the Backup & Restore option is all I needed.

Another note on the backup process, from what I have painfully expereinced

When I was restoring onto a new box, more than once. It would not restore the second time unless I removed the extensions. (E.g. I restored to a new box, but did not implement it immediately, so I decided to restore the next day's latest backup. The 2nd restore would not work, it would do nothing, unless I removed the extensions, then it would restore the latest backup)

Also remember if your doing FTP to watch out for ASCII vs Binary file xfers. Windows FTP server default to ASCII when you need to xfer in Binary mode (just type "binary" at the command line )

Yes, I have done this several times. You just type 'nuke' when you boot from the first mondo backup disk. A while ago I wrote a mondo how-to its on my website here: http://cat24.net/Mondoarchive.html

John