I have actually been learning this with my current job. The guy that was training me gave me about 3 hours of training then he left me on my own. I must say the three hours he spent training me was very good, but I just needed something to reference every so often. Great collection thanks for all your videos.
Been watching your content for all of 24 hours, liked what I watched. Was looking forward to this series you mentioned in a few older videos. Never expected to get all of it uploaded today! You have helped me out hugely with this hole thing. Ive watched it all already tonight and will be re watching it all again soon when I build out a system for my new companies office. Thank you!
Great info here. I am just chiming in for those who may be wondering about some products. Backups solutions will forever be on the same page as printers in the biggest pains in the ass in IT. That said, for those in a purely virtual (or damn close) it is hard to beat Veeam. It works, is stable, is not overly complicated and is loaded with features. It also has a pretty good licensing model. If you have more physical machines, Acronis Backup and Recovery does pretty well, though I have heard some nightmare stories with it too. That said, you will hear those everywhere for all solutions. In my personal experience as an enterprise IT architect for a large company with a mixed (but a bit heavier on the Windows side) environment: Note there are other products, but I have actual experience with these: Good: Veeam, Acronis Backup and Recovery, Comvault, Windows Backup (yes, the one that comes with the OS), Cloudberry Labs (best Amazon Glacier client IMO) Bad: Tivoli (decent product, awful licensing), ArcVault, NetBackup (admittedly have not used newer versions) Ugly: Backup Exec
Already work as Sysadmin for a small business, currently we gonna change the avaya PBX for a FreePBX because of E1 to SIP trunking change. yours videos are awesome. Greetings from el salvador.
I do two backups of my RasPBX, one after the other (1) an image backup of the entire installation on the SD card, and (2) a FreePBX backup from within the admin GUI. The image backup of the entire SD card is put onto a USB thumb drive that can restore the PBX: O/S, Asterisk and FreePBX all in one shot. The USB thumb drive remains plugged in but it's unmounted from the O/S after the image backup is finished. The FreePBX backup is downloaded to a PC hard drive. A drive image backup can avoid the kind of problem you encountered as it restores the entire system with the O/S with Asterisk and FreePBX in one shot. Been there, done that, with restoration of the RasPBX from a major crash I induced when attempting to update the O/S, Asterisk and FreePBX after letting it sit for a year. Did something in the wrong order with the massive updates, and committed a major error with the O/S upgrade. Was able to do it from a backup image. In the process of not only doing all the updates/upgrades, also did image backups and restorations a couple more times just to get some minor things straightened out. Would be more lengthy with your server, but an image backup would be much more worthwhile, as if you were installing a new, larger hard drive on a PC. If Acronis has a solution that would image the server on a regular schedule, I'd use it with the kind of server you are using.
My RasPBX install has just died - but I can still access the files on the SD Card - any tips on how to get back to where I was before? Can I just overwrite /etc/asterisk to 'reimport' all my settings and flows and the asterisk phonebook into RasPBX? Thanks!
@@dane6497 If the Raspberry Pi is the problem and not the SD card or what's on it, just replace it with a new one of the same model (you cannot replace a 3 with a 4 and use the same O/S; it's different hardware) and boot up the new Pi with it. If it's the O/S that's corrupted beyond recovery on the SD card or the SD card itself, you're probably going to have to start over unless you have a backup from when it was last working. That's why I create periodic backups no less than monthly within FreePBX which can be downloaded to separate storage and backups from within the Pi using the "raspbx-backup" command and putting the backup on a thumb drive in the USB port (NEVER put it on the SD card running the Pi - it tries to backup the backup being created which causes it to fail). I did have to start from scratch once and vowed never to do that again - doing backups before and after major O/S and FreePBX updates.
I have lost my data a few times, and I've tried to figure out a system that works for me. Finally I came up with a sort of DIY solution... I've organized all my important data into single folder, and I've made a samba server of my old PC, where I store a copy of my data, and I've installed a fully functional "Emergency system" (exactly the same Ubuntu version with the same programs, and settings as on my hard drive) on a USB3 stick, so If my main system goes down, I take my sister's laptop, stick in the USB stick, boot from that, and log in to my samba server, and everything is there instantly. I don't have a lot of data, so I don't even bother packing it, so it's always ready to use. I don't have to thinker with my PC at all, if it goes down, I do that when I have time for it. I did it, I've tested it, so I know it works. :D
how do you feel about this neat idea? windows 10 pro has hyper-V support inside it... as soon as you install your system you just use the hyper-V manager to make a VHD of your main windows drive. run almost everything inside that virtual machine instead of directly on the machine. virtual machine hardware support is GREAT these days, especially on newer I7 cpus... i'm considering doing this next time i go and re-install windows when i feel like windows got too bloated.
What are you opinions on time machine, I've had pretty good luck with it thus far, seems to work well with just a few minor gripes. Main gripe being you can't seem to control the size of how much space is allotted for backups on an external drive, that is if you want to change the amount of space the backups are taking up
Looking forward to going through videos. Would love to see you touch on your results of using Adwords and experience in general with it and the different campaigns. You touched on it I believe when you first started yes I'm probably before 100 subscribers lol
I made my playlist with your PBX videos and got to say DUDE thank YOU, I respect your work! Is this the last video form entire series? or what is the last video part?
Just use URBackup (also open source, ergo free - www.urbackup.org/) to back up the entire drive image periodically across your network (a full drive image weekly, a differential drive image daily). Problem solved!
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I have actually been learning this with my current job. The guy that was training me gave me about 3 hours of training then he left me on my own. I must say the three hours he spent training me was very good, but I just needed something to reference every so often. Great collection thanks for all your videos.
+Clint Brinson Thanks for watching!
Been watching your content for all of 24 hours, liked what I watched. Was looking forward to this series you mentioned in a few older videos. Never expected to get all of it uploaded today! You have helped me out hugely with this hole thing. Ive watched it all already tonight and will be re watching it all again soon when I build out a system for my new companies office. Thank you!
+nbargate1 Thanks for watching!
Is this the last video?
Great info here. I am just chiming in for those who may be wondering about some products.
Backups solutions will forever be on the same page as printers in the biggest pains in the ass in IT. That said, for those in a purely virtual (or damn close) it is hard to beat Veeam. It works, is stable, is not overly complicated and is loaded with features. It also has a pretty good licensing model. If you have more physical machines, Acronis Backup and Recovery does pretty well, though I have heard some nightmare stories with it too. That said, you will hear those everywhere for all solutions. In my personal experience as an enterprise IT architect for a large company with a mixed (but a bit heavier on the Windows side) environment: Note there are other products, but I have actual experience with these:
Good: Veeam, Acronis Backup and Recovery, Comvault, Windows Backup (yes, the one that comes with the OS), Cloudberry Labs (best Amazon Glacier client IMO)
Bad: Tivoli (decent product, awful licensing), ArcVault, NetBackup (admittedly have not used newer versions)
Ugly: Backup Exec
Already work as Sysadmin for a small business, currently we gonna change the avaya PBX for a FreePBX because of E1 to SIP trunking change. yours videos are awesome.
Greetings from el salvador.
I do two backups of my RasPBX, one after the other
(1) an image backup of the entire installation on the SD card, and
(2) a FreePBX backup from within the admin GUI.
The image backup of the entire SD card is put onto a USB thumb drive that can restore the PBX: O/S, Asterisk and FreePBX all in one shot. The USB thumb drive remains plugged in but it's unmounted from the O/S after the image backup is finished. The FreePBX backup is downloaded to a PC hard drive. A drive image backup can avoid the kind of problem you encountered as it restores the entire system with the O/S with Asterisk and FreePBX in one shot. Been there, done that, with restoration of the RasPBX from a major crash I induced when attempting to update the O/S, Asterisk and FreePBX after letting it sit for a year. Did something in the wrong order with the massive updates, and committed a major error with the O/S upgrade. Was able to do it from a backup image. In the process of not only doing all the updates/upgrades, also did image backups and restorations a couple more times just to get some minor things straightened out.
Would be more lengthy with your server, but an image backup would be much more worthwhile, as if you were installing a new, larger hard drive on a PC. If Acronis has a solution that would image the server on a regular schedule, I'd use it with the kind of server you are using.
My RasPBX install has just died - but I can still access the files on the SD Card - any tips on how to get back to where I was before? Can I just overwrite /etc/asterisk to 'reimport' all my settings and flows and the asterisk phonebook into RasPBX? Thanks!
@@dane6497 If the Raspberry Pi is the problem and not the SD card or what's on it, just replace it with a new one of the same model (you cannot replace a 3 with a 4 and use the same O/S; it's different hardware) and boot up the new Pi with it. If it's the O/S that's corrupted beyond recovery on the SD card or the SD card itself, you're probably going to have to start over unless you have a backup from when it was last working. That's why I create periodic backups no less than monthly within FreePBX which can be downloaded to separate storage and backups from within the Pi using the "raspbx-backup" command and putting the backup on a thumb drive in the USB port (NEVER put it on the SD card running the Pi - it tries to backup the backup being created which causes it to fail). I did have to start from scratch once and vowed never to do that again - doing backups before and after major O/S and FreePBX updates.
Great video. Thank's for bringing this important topic up. Especially now that so many of those encryption viruses are going around.
I have lost my data a few times, and I've tried to figure out a system that works for me. Finally I came up with a sort of DIY solution... I've organized all my important data into single folder, and I've made a samba server of my old PC, where I store a copy of my data, and I've installed a fully functional "Emergency system" (exactly the same Ubuntu version with the same programs, and settings as on my hard drive) on a USB3 stick, so If my main system goes down, I take my sister's laptop, stick in the USB stick, boot from that, and log in to my samba server, and everything is there instantly. I don't have a lot of data, so I don't even bother packing it, so it's always ready to use. I don't have to thinker with my PC at all, if it goes down, I do that when I have time for it. I did it, I've tested it, so I know it works. :D
how do you feel about this neat idea? windows 10 pro has hyper-V support inside it... as soon as you install your system you just use the hyper-V manager to make a VHD of your main windows drive. run almost everything inside that virtual machine instead of directly on the machine. virtual machine hardware support is GREAT these days, especially on newer I7 cpus... i'm considering doing this next time i go and re-install windows when i feel like windows got too bloated.
8:45 sftp shouldn't be confused with ftp
What are you opinions on time machine, I've had pretty good luck with it thus far, seems to work well with just a few minor gripes. Main gripe being you can't seem to control the size of how much space is allotted for backups on an external drive, that is if you want to change the amount of space the backups are taking up
+Richard Bibeault the ability to back up applications and their settings is amazing. I think apple did a great job with how they handle migration
Looking forward to going through videos. Would love to see you touch on your results of using Adwords and experience in general with it and the different campaigns. You touched on it I believe when you first started yes I'm probably before 100 subscribers lol
Best advice Test stuff before using it
I made my playlist with your PBX videos and got to say DUDE thank YOU, I respect your work! Is this the last video form entire series? or what is the last video part?
Holy shit... Lewis suddenly put all of his upcoming video content to RUclips? There is so. much. stuff.
Louis, you are an expert, you know what is the best way to wipe my ass with phone when it get bricked?
What's with all the crackling sounds?
+Jire There to make sure people are paying attention
Why are they so long
why 20+ parts in one day?
+MehDFull people complain a lot about long videos, so I decided to split it up and see if less complaints... no dice.
has anyone here done a full restore it did not work say " I "!
Just use URBackup (also open source, ergo free - www.urbackup.org/) to back up the entire drive image periodically across your network (a full drive image weekly, a differential drive image daily). Problem solved!