Backup and Restore

Being able to upload a tarball of a saved backup through a form in a web page would be handy.

can you explain this again?

I'm using trixbox 1.1.1 and I cant find it.

is there somewhere specific in the folder that it stores these backups as I can just use winscp to log in but I dont know what files to copy across.

Dean

sweet thanks, that was easy.

i took a look at amportal.conf - the bottom of the file, and see nothing there regarding a remote ftp site. am i just over looking it?
(i'm using trixbox 1.1.1)

OH first off the feature is not in TrixBox...you must update Freepbx to get the feature and even then it will take some work.

Now...
To use the built in backup

Login as user with backup right, create backup job, run backup job.

use ssh login go to /var/lib/asterisk/backups copy out backup to local PC.

Or create a cron to do it or use third party app to copy offsite..

to restore..rebuild system to same point, less config files .
ssh into box dump backup in /var/lib/asterisk/backups and then login and run restore..

That is all there is to

It is easy do not make it hard...

OK have you looked at the backup script??

/var/lib/asterisk/bin/ampbackup.pl

with the Asterisk and MYSQL the conf file are built on the fly
/var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf

Think Rsync...
so what need to do is the MYSQL updates on the second box (amportal stop and configure it as a clone of the live box)

use fqdn names when you can and if you setup DNS failover that will give you what you wish..

http://www.simplefailover.com/

I only use IAX and they allow for 2 servers (failover) only they are IP only (no fqdn), but all mine are static IP's so no problem for me.

if you are worried about the config.
I think that TrixBox is doing a backup each nite is it not???

Are you getting the email for root / admin ???
You should be getting two or three emails a day with the logs.
(I guess that feature is still in the builds..I do not run Trixbox YET)

If you are really wanting to do it right then setup a box go out and grab those .tar file(s) each nite and keep 7 ~ 14 days of data..

Drive space is cheap Data is not...
Find some offsite to dump.. ftp it to a cheap offsite backup

Or find someone who runs a StorGrid (Rsync engine) server and install the agent you should get a 1~5 gig account 20.00 ~ 30.00 and month

Or look at WINSCP and the Command line options
sync remote folders when a change is made on one

it watch's a folder for say new voice mail and if one comes in the file is sent to the second server as soon as the dirty bit is written.

Well it would help if I was working on the running copy of the code, wouldn't it? I had been working in /usr/src/freepbx/amp_conf/bin/ampbackup.pl. Once I changed /var/lib/asterisk/bin/ampbackup.pl, the FTP works fine from the UI.

I'd still be curious how to "tap into" the console output if that's possible...

Cheers,

Mark

If you're referring to the partimage approach, anything that doesn't change could be part of your image. I would think that would include any config files.

The image is a snapshot of an entire partition (like a Norton Ghost image under Windows). The assumption is that you will restore to the SAME server (perhaps after replacing the failed hard drive), not a new server. If it IS a different server, it should have an identical hardware configuration to the first one.

When you do the restore, you do not install and update trixbox, you just restore the latest image (which brings you back to the point at which the image snapshot was made), then restore the latest trixbox/FreePBX backup.

I _think_ the FreePBX backup includes the call logs, but it would not include general system logs.

I'd suggest trying it on a test machine before relying on it in production!

Mark

I'm running FreePBX 2.2.0rc3 on a live system in addition to a new box we are migrating over to. We do an entire backup on the live system and copy this file to the new box and restore via the FreePBX GUI. Everything says ok. However the web gui does not reflect any of the restored settings. The .conf files are correct though. If you make any changes in the GUI and apply the changes all the files are overwritten back to prior to the restore.

I'm guessing that this happens because the files are rewritten from the db but how is it possible to make this work and have the restored settings reflected in the web gui and db?

I must be missing something here?

add a second drive do a dd to the other drive and it's a perfect copy

THANK-YOU : For the backup information. I will try to follow the link. I will get back to the post and let you everyone know what the my status is.
RJLennon
http://cat24.net/Mondoarchive.html

Hi,

If I am in the backup directory what is the command that will copy the desired backup to the desttop of my PC?

Thanks,

Raymond

I run winSCP on my PC and use that to copy from my trixbox m/c.

what can i do, i need help in backing up and restoring trixbox can anyone help me plz

Where are the logs for the freepbx backup stored? I've got a brand new system that won't do any backups right now.

I assume you have done the readings above as to how to go into the freepbx's Backup & Resotere module and what to backup or not or atleast be familiar with the module.
Here is the process to automatically backup files to a remote ftp machine:
1. Use a shell (SSH or Putty) to connect to your asterisk
a. From the shell do: nano /etc/amportal.conf
b. Scroll down half way, you’ll see comments about FTP something like below:
# The following are used to optionally have the freepbx backup program #optionally send the generated backup to an ftp server #FTPBACKUP=YES to enable FTPUSER, FTPPASSWORD, #FTPSERVER must be set FTPSUBDIR is an optional subdirectory at the #ftp server, it will cause ftp to do a cd. There is no error checking so you #should check to make sure these are set correctly. The ftp is saved after #the backup, so it will not cause the local backup file to be effected
FTPBACKUP=yes #Uncommented for backup to be ftped
FTPUSER=username on your ftp server #Uncommented
FTPPASSWORD=password on your ftp server #uncommented
#FTPSUBDIR=MyFTP
FTPSERVER=192.168.1.XX #uncommented for FTP to work
Now make sure the above lines are uncommented. Save by doing a ctrl-x then Y then enter to write to the same name.
c. I used filezilla free ftp server on my windows machine. On my windows machine I have created a directly something like: myasteriskbackup
d. I make this directly write enabled and created a username and password which I used in the above amportal.conf file

2. Now go back to the FREEPBX gui, Create Backup Schedule from Backup & Restore Module
a. For testing I created a BackupNow schedule with ‘Now’ selected from the Run Backup Now pulldown menu
b. Then I pressed the Submit Changes and it created the backup folder.
c. Now using shell again, you can go into /var/lib/asterisk/backups and you should see the folder or directory with the same name as your backup schedule name you have created earlier in freepbx – in my case it is ‘BackupNow’
d. Now go into the directory: cd BackupNow
e. You should see a file like: 20080208.17.30.24.tar.gz
f. The file name is basically the date and time it was created

3. Once you verified that everything is good then it’s time to restart your asterisk and upon restart it should transfer the file to your ftp server
a. From shell do this: amportal restart
b. It should restart and dump the file into the ftp drive.

Hope the above method helps and are as detials as I could make it. But feel free to write me at pbx at doyel dot ca

Check this link out, there is a bug in backup restore method in tribox:

http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/help/fix-freepbx-bac...

I think the problem you are having could be related to this. If not clarify what do you mean by no links?

Within FreePBX, goto Module Admin -> Check for updates online.
Scroll down to Backup Restore and install.

Remember to be careful if you are restoring from an older FreePBX version.

I've read this thread from top to bottom but can't see much about SSH - does anyone use SSH to backup their Trixboxes, if so, mind sharing some thoughts?

I was planning to SSH the backups to our CentOS server although am having some trouble installing the SSH key. I have created a user on the server, installed the Trixbox's public RSA key on the server and am trying to get the backup to work (it doesn't).

If anyone has this working I'd be interested to hear what you did to make it so.

Thanks. George

See post: http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/back... for a step-by-step installation of the FreePBX and Mondorescue backups for trixbox 2.6.2.3...

Sorry to be dumb again, but isnt on the install disk, or why doesnt it appear as a module update option?

Gotcha. Now I understand. Sorry I am new to this

Is there a way to set the backup tools to do automatic backups to a thumb drive making an ISO bootable image?
Then you would have a robust system that does not need a lot of tending, but in the event of hardware failure you can boot to USB device?

If someone can help me out here this would be very well appreciated!

I do backups with the FTP but I've read so many threads here where people were unable to restore their backup files to an updated version of Trixbox. Phones are critical to business operations and hard drives are cheap. I took our system down long enough to clone the drive. I keep the spare drive inside the phone system case, but not connected. If the drive dies I can simply insert the new drive and I'm running again. If the rest of the system dies and the hardware changes I may not be so lucky as I don't know how picky Trixbox is about the hardware it's installed on, but at least I've got SOME hope because you KNOW it's just a matter of time before a hard drive pukes. I'm fixing three drives that died on other servers today. None of them are very old. Hard drives just aren't dependable.