[Freeswitch-users] How to update a live system with very little downtime (How does 'make current' work?)

[William King]

For minimum downtime just leave FS running, go to where you have the FS
source and do:
git pull
make
/etc/init.d/freeswitch stop
make install
/etc/init.d/freeswitch start

That's assuming you have a freeswitch init script. That'll leave you
with only the downtime that it takes to restart FS, and the length of
the make install(usually very short).

William King
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On 04/30/2012 11:52 AM, Kerem Erciyes wrote:
> Or you could always build a debian-live image that includes
> freeswitch-current and all the wanpipe driver etc, and swap them out
> at will at 5 mins downtime maximum, store all you data on HDD of /etc
> and /freeswitch/conf and you are good to go....
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org
> <mailto:msc at freeswitch.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Jason Moran
>     <jmoran at secureachsystems.com <mailto:jmoran at secureachsystems.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Sorry for such a basic question:
>
>         1.       If I do a 'make current' while a system is running it
>         will not have any effect until I restart FS, correct?
>
>         2.       What if 'make current' fails? What if it fails and
>         the server gets restarted, will FS work?
>
>         3.       Is it more advisable to stop FS, do the 'make
>         current', then start FS even though it will have a longer down
>         time?
>
>          
>
>         I know it's best to keep FS up-to-date -- but it is difficult
>         when you only have 1 system available and it is expected to
>         have 100% uptime..
>
>         Thanks,
>         Jason
>
>
>     Since you don't have a spare system (which is totally naughty,
>     btw, especially if your corporate overlords expect 100% uptime)
>     then my next question would be this: how are you set on CPU power,
>     RAM, and disk space? The reason I ask is that it is entirely
>     possible to create a secondary git clone of the FS repo and use a
>     completely different install path when running the configure
>     script. You could "make current" in that secondary repo and get a
>     sort of preview of what would happen w/o touching your production
>     build env or install dirs. If the update goes well in your test
>     scenario then you could do the update in your production environment.
>
>      It's kinda hackish but if you have spare disk space then it's a
>     really cheap option. It isn't perfect, but it does give you at
>     least some semblance of "try before you buy."
>
>     -MC
>
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