Hi all!
The hard disk on my Asterisk server has reached 75% full. The guys that installed the system did not metion anything about backup, etc.
I have 2 questions:
What data is taking up this disk space? Is it call records?
What options are there for backing up this data and freeing up some hard disk space?
Hmm, sorry I missed the “call recordings or archived backup” portion of your statement before.
It is not call recordings, or voice mails sitting in memory - we don’t do the former and the latter were all clean in our 3 extensions that have active users.
For the backups - since I am not normally the admin (I’m the company owner), what is being backed up? Is it the entire system software and settings, log files, call recordings, etc? Or just logs and calls?
There is a misuse of words here, your logs will cannot be increasing exponentially using the standard cron jobs, just linearly, that does not mean they will not be huge. A properly configured logrotate will purge such excesses in your logs, use the same or similar process to trim your backups.