We have two new Dell servers running Stable-6.12.65 freepbx distro and I was wondering what we should do to keep both servers synchronized for fail-over situations. The main server will be self hosted on site and the backup server will at a colo facility.
After searching the forums I found older entries that suggested Rsync. Is this still the recommended method? What config files would I need to sync with the lastest and greatest version of freePBX?
I still use the flip1405 script on many of my systems to check off that HA box.
creates a Virtual IP for the systems to bind, so instead of freepbx1 and freepbx2, all your phones will register to a VIP called freepbx that one of the systems will bind to, and the other will check if it’s up.
I run my systems off of CentOS, YMMV if you run something else. What directories you want to sync is configurable. I just had to change the subnet mask for the interface it brings up since some of voice vlans are a /23
However, I am having issues with the backup actually working, I either get too many login attempts or connection timed out when connecting warm spare to primary server for backup.
Does anyone have this working successfully? I have followed the steps to the T.
I eventually got the backup and restore working great. The ssh issue was resolved by actually putting the key name in the key field and the location of it in the location field. This was not in the wiki but it was definitely a ‘doh!’ moment for me. Once it was setup properly, the nightly warm backup works awesome!