Setup a NAS to Backup & Archive Recordings for Your V16 Update 4

[KyriakosP]

If you prefer to keep your 3CX backups and recordings secure within the confines of your LAN, a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device is the answer. It’s a simple and affordable solution, especially when compared to setting up a fully-fledged server. Synology is a popular choice to easily add shared storage on your network for backing up your PBX...

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[Oliver Broad]

I'd like to backup to a Buffalo Linkstation, using SMB. I got FTP working, but I couldn't get SMB to work with default credentials.

 

[KyriakosP]

Hi @Oliver Broad,

Thank you for your message. Test and verify your connection to the SMB share first at the OS level, before using the credentials with 3CX. Depending on the device, the default credentials might not work so you may need to create a dedicated user for your connection to 3CX.

 

[Oliver Broad]

Is there a simple way to verify the integrity of the backup. Can a tool like 7-zip open it? Not that I want to mess around with the file, just perform CRC tests to prove it isn't corrupt?

 

[KyriakosP]

Yes, you can test the file integrity of the PBX backup archive with a standard ZIP utility.

 

[Oliver Broad]

The backup I made via FTP will not pass integrity tests. Explorer won't touch it. 7-zip reports the file may be cut short and returns garbage. I'll clarify that: I think the file is just cut short.

I'm rusty on smb/cifs but I googled an example and got:

mount -t cifs //192.168.7.253/other /mnt/cifs -o username=phone,password=****,domain=wibble

It didn't seem to care what I put in domain as long as I put something it worked. I think I might try using the test mount point as a backup destination but that might fail as the mount was performed as root without options? adding ,noperms fixed that

 

[Oliver Broad]

If anyone else is struggling with that it is "noperm" without the S. Also I had to turn the computer off and on, and on restarting when I went to reconnect I found that cifs wasn't available, wierd. Working again now, might try to add it to fstab.

mount -t cifs //192.168.7.253/other/phone /mnt/cifs -o username=phone,password=****,noperm

 

[Oliver Broad]

Just for clarification I had to turn the computer off because of electrical work not because of configuring cifs.

Once it had been restarted I had to remount the share as I hadn't made it permanent (with fstab) yet. The funny thing was that command line mount using cifs didn't work after the reboot, although it had before. I then installed cifs-utils and the mount command worked again.

 

[Oliver Broad]

FWIW I've since plugged a flash drive into the (Draytek) router, and this makes an effective FTP server that accepts the backups without truncating them. This is a nice "set and forget" solution compared to trying to make cifs work reliably.

 

[JohnS_3CX]

FWIW I've since plugged a flash drive into the (Draytek) router, and this makes an effective FTP server that accepts the backups without truncating them. This is a nice "set and forget" solution compared to trying to make cifs work reliably.

you might want to consider replacing it with a USB hard drive as flash has limited write cycles