Hello,
We currently have two FreePBX installations, a primary and a secondary server. The servers are configured identically, with the same processors, memory, NIC’s and drive arrays.
Our secondary server has become out of date through the installation of different products, updates, ect. We would like to bring the secondary server back up to par with the primary server.
We have installed Acronis Backup and Recovery 11 for Linux and taken a backup of our primary PBX. Can I preform the following steps and not worry about a conflict with the primary server?
- Restore the image of the primary server to the secondary server.
- Unplug the network cable of the secondary server…
- Reboot the secondary server.
- Change the IP address of the secondary server.
- Change the name of the secondary server.
- Install license keys specific to the secondary server, for iSymphony and Queuemetrics.
- Shutdown the secondary server.
- Plug in the network cable of the secondary server.
- Boot the secondary server.
I have a Windows background and I know in Windows you have to run sysprep to change the sid, as well IP and name of the computer or it will conflict with another computer on the network. I am not sure if Linux has the same feature.