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I am planning to roll out Asterisk to some offices and I have been
thinking about how to disaster proof the box.

For the production box, of course, it will have RAID 1 disk drives and
2GB memory at least.

a) If the office burns down, there is nothing much I could do.
b) If it is software error, then good luck with the trouble-shooting.
c) If the hardware fails, then I could call for the vendor to come to
replace faulty hardware but this is going to take at least 2 to 4 hours
no matter how much you pay for the warranty.

It is because of (c) that prompts me to think about configuring a cheap
desktop as a hot box so that if the production box fails disastrously,
then I could simply move the PRI cable to the hot box and business
should continue.
However, this will require the production box daily copying (rsync) all
the changed files to the hot box.
Is this a good idea? Or is there a better idea? Or am I too paranoid?
What do you guys do out there?

[bwentdg at pipeline.com]

From a lot of experience - you are not being anywhere near paranoid
enough !!!!!!!!!!
Think dual RAID controllers, Dual power supplies off of, at a Minimum,
separate isolated circuits, with Hefty UPS that is in-line so it filters
the power, think mirrored systems with a simple from switch from Black
Box that will throw the lines over to the working box. Think -hmmm, how
to keep v-mail between boxes in sync. Think remote console access to the
server below multi-user level
Think... is your azz is on the line for this install, I would give real
consideration about doing this until you hzve a better plan, more $$$ in
hand or a SLA to the end user that is very very forgiving.
My 2 cents, worth all that you pad for it

Lee, John (Sydney) wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:27:47AM -0400, Al Baker wrote: