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good grief! I must still be half asleep! I made the same type-o twice in a row!<br><br>("and" instead of "an")<br><br>not to mention a singular/plural mismatch or two..<br><br>And to make matters worse, I was responding to someone<br>in England that actually speaks English (as opposed to American).<br><br>Shame on me!! :-)<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: telesistant@hotmail.com<br>To: keith@handscombe.co.uk; app_rpt-users@qrvc.com<br>Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:27:21 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Would this work?<br><br>
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yeah... totally!! In my world doing something very similar to that is a<br>quite standard and familiar practice. If you take a copy of all the config<br>files in the /etc/asterisk directory from a working node, and copy them<br>onto a different machine containing a brand new clean installation the<br>new system will "become" the original one. Similarly (and perhaps more<br>interesting to this application), you can configure a system locally,<br>make it work and take the contents of its /etc/asterisk directory and<br>put them onto any other properly installed system, and it will "become"<br>the node that you configured locally. I do stuff like that all the time,<br>particularly when I upgrade a Limey Linux installation (since by its nature,<br>there is no reasonable or sane "online" upgrade process for the OS itself).<br><br>Remember, some people have stuff outside the /etc/asterisk directory that are<br>unique to their installation, such as voice ID files, custom written stuff, such<br>as shell scripts and stuff, and lets not forget about those who run chan_irlp<br>and other such things that contain a number of files not in the Asterisk config<br>directory. <br><br>Also, if you are making a "pre-configured" package, make sure that the system you<br>are putting it on is running the latest distro (ACID or Limey Linux, etc). Some<br>older (and in some cases VERY older) systems do not have the features available<br>in their OS and/or Asterisk distro to deal with some of the newest and latest<br>features.<br><br>Like basically, that's what our portal does when it configures a system for you.<br>It makes a set of Asterisk config files, and downloads them into your system and<br>it "becomes" whatever you told the portal it was supposed to be (well, at least most<br>of the time :-) ).<br><br>You know, if you have more then one system in on different IP addresses<br>(and presumably different locations) all configured identically with the<br>same node number, it will more or less create a game of "Allstar Roulette".<br>All the systems will be fighting to for registration of that one node number,<br>and at some unknown time periodically, the system node database distribution<br>system takes a "snapshot" of everyone's IP addresses and distributes the<br>system node list to the distribution servers (like nodes1, nodes2, etc..).<br>So at any given time, anyone could have any of the IP addresses of any<br>of those systems in their distro list, and that's what, at that moment, their<br>systems would connect to if they made and outbound connection, or<br>would accept and inbound connection from if one was made. Im not<br>really sure if this is a desirable condition, but it might be fun if someone<br>is up late some night and is really majorly bored or something :-).<br><br>JIM WB6NIL<br><br><br>> From: keith@handscombe.co.uk<br>> To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com<br>> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:36:58 +0100<br>> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Would this work?<br>> <br>> Hi all it's g7dnt Keith on nodes 2498 & 27333.<br>> I have used Ghost a disk clone tool to bit copy my Allstar node disk <br>> and the original 40gb disk was cloned on 10 minutes all tested and is <br>> now a backup of my system<br>> I have been asked to make a node replacement so can I;<br>> <br>> Clone my disk again and test as usual on my system then take the other <br>> Asterisk folder from the other Allstar node and over write my config.<br>> Then login and reset the root password to match the other persons node.<br>> At this point telephone the other node owner and get this node turned <br>> off.<br>> <br>> Once he has turned this node off then turn on the cloned node with <br>> that Allstar configuration folder at my location and test node 2259.<br>> <br>> Before I do the above I thought I would ask as the other node is 300 <br>> miles away and I am trying to help a node owner out in building a new <br>> node pc preconfigured that he could plug n go.<br>> <br>> Many thanks<br>> <br>> Keith G7DNT<br>> <br>> 2498 & 27333 Allstar<br>> 5503 IRLP and Echolink<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> App_rpt-users mailing list<br>> App_rpt-users@qrvc.com<br>> http://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users<br>
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