Solved Install on OVH vps failing

[Michael1600]

Unable to install on new OVH vps server. Able to log in with Putty and loaded the following commands with success:
wget -O- http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/3cxpbx/public.key | apt-key add -

echo "deb http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/3cxpbx/ /" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/3cxpbx.list

apt-get update

This command failed:

apt-get install 3cxpbx

Error message is: E: Unable to locate package 3cxpbx.

Also ran:
apt-get upgrade
followed by:
apt-get install 3cxpbx

Still got error:
E: Unable to locate package 3cxpbx.

Would appreciate some help-Thanks!

 

[cobaltit]

That error would indicate the 2nd line of commands didn't work or you've somehow mangled your apt configuration. I would try running the second line again:

echo "deb http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/3cxpbx/ /" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/3cxpbx.list

And read carefully to make sure it worked. When you run the 3rd command "apt-get update" you should see the 3CX repo listed in the output there. If not, then the 4th command isn't going to work.

 

[Michael1600]

Thank you for your help. Re-ran the commands for the third time and it worked. Now up and running. Any tips on managing the OVH Vps and best practices for managing backups?

 

[Bret Gordon]

Backups: https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/pbx-backup-restore-failover/

I use webmin to manage all of my servers, but 3CX is pretty good about managing system updates, also. You might want to set up a cron job to send the backup files off-site, though, via sftp or whatever.

 

[Michael1600]

Thanks, can you recommend a place to learn about setting up cron jobs to send backup off site?

 

[Bret Gordon]

not really, sorry, but:

1) you need an sftp site to send it to (another linux server that you run)
2) you need to know where the backup files are (see link in previous post)
3) you need to add a cron rule to run the command to send those files to the sftp site nightly or however often

you can google all of this, it's standard linux sysadmin stuff. not trying to be a D

 

[Michael1600]

Got it. Thanks again.

 

[Bret Gordon]

yw, bro

 

[Bret Gordon]

Maybe I should feature-request that backups get sent off-site automatically with user credentials/location...shouldn't be hard to implement...

 

[cobaltit]

Offsite backups is already available with v15 SP5 and later with Google Drive integration

 

[Bret Gordon]

cool, ty. i'll implement