David,

Since the files ARE on the CF, I'm not going to create the symbolic 
links.  The more correct way would be to work to have the backup script 
backup the unionfs partition (as you're suggesting).

What's currently in 0.6 will be 0.6.1.  Any new features will be in 0.6.2.

Darrick

David Kerr wrote:
> Darrick,
>   They are certainly created on the CF thanks to unionfs and survive 
> reboot.  Certainly you could treat this directory similarly to voicemail 
> and link it to the kd, which would be necessary for implementations that 
> still use a kd. I have no idea if there are similar directories.
> 
> But it occurs to me that the better solution for unionfs implementations 
> might be to have a backup option in the gui that rather than backing up 
> /mnt/kd, backs up /oldroot/mnt/asturw which would backup all user 
> modifications, recordings, voicemail, etc etc that is on the CF in one 
> step. Lonnie you listening?
> 
> As for asterisk-gui, certainly the v1 release was pretty rudimentry. The 
> v2 has a lot more capability but not to the extent that you are looking 
> for... and as I have found out there are bugs.  I find it useful for 
> basic setup, but have also had to manually edit extensions.conf and 
> users.conf to get many of the specific settings that I need (for my 
> pretty basic home PBX system, not that fancy really).
> 
>     Actually if they are on unionfs they're on the CF card.  In this
>     case, /var is a tempfs file system.  So assuming that the 'record'
>     directory is created when the file is recorded, it only exists in
>     ram (so when you reboot--poof it's gone).
> 
>     We could do some foo to have the /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/record
>     directory linked to a directory elsewhere.  That's what's done with
>     the 'custom-sounds' and voicemail directories and a few others
>     within /var/.
> 
>     I personally haven't used the Asterisk-gui.  I didn't like the way
>     the 1.0 branch interpreted the config files.  If you had foo.conf
>     and there was an #include statement, the included file was read into
>     the original foo.conf file which created all sorts of problems.  I
>     like to keep certain parts of files like extensions.conf in
>     /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf and other parts in a separate file to
>     make them easier to read.  (site specific stuff in one file, generic
>     settings in the other).  I hope that behavior has changed, but I'm
>     guessing no.
> 
>     Either way, I can add a sym link for 'record', but are there any
>     other similar directories?
> 
>     Darrick
> 
>     David Kerr wrote:
> 
>         I used the asterisk-gui to record my own sound files.  As I
>         prepare to migrate from an older build of astlinux (1792) to
>         branch 0.6 I have found that these files are not stored on the
>         kd nor backed up (by the alternate web interface, that copies
>         everything on /mnt/kd).
> 
>         Sound files that I record myself get placed into
>         /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/record which unionfs maps onto my
>         compactflash card. But because they are not in /mnt/kd (like
>         voicemail is) they don't get backed up. I think this is a bug
>         and that this directory should bet mapped onto the kd?
> 
>         Regards,
>         David.

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