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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Maintaining and protecting backups


The way in which FreePBX provides backups is simple and effective, but it presents two major problems: storage and protection. Similar to how call recordings have to be managed or they will fill up the available storage space, FreePBX backup schedules will continue to back up the system indefinitely. The backups must be maintained or the system will eventually run out of space and cease to function.

Once the problem of backup maintenance is taken care of, the problem of backup protection still exists. The backups taken by FreePBX reside on the server itself. If the hard disk crashes or the local backup becomes corrupted, there will be no way to restore a failed system.

Maintaining backups

Maintaining backups is best accomplished by a script that simply looks for backups older than a certain threshold and deletes them. The following script will search for all backups older than 90 days and delete them. The script can be adjusted to suit the appropriate backup...