Re: [hylafax-users] Remote Server

[John Hudak <jjhudak@xxxxxxxxx>]

Probably the most efficient way would be to modify the send & receive scripts with a call to your script routine to copy the files to the other machine.  Having only looked at the scripts briefly, I think it would be self evident where to place the call.  I don't know if hylafax has a pre-designated way to do this, sorry.  The experts that hang out here could address that.

Another way is to make the drive/directory on the fax machine part of a samba share and run a cron job to do the copy.

A similar approach is to perhaps do an Rsync via crontab from your server machine with the hylafax directories.  

The latter two would run periodically based on the times in crontab. the advantage is that hylafax is not modified so updates to hylafax would not 'break' the copy feature.  The disadvantage is that you are could lose copies of the faxes that have been received or sent  between rsynchs. 
Modifying the hylafax script is most direct but when a new version of hylafax is installed, you will have to modify the script.
John

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Daniel L. Miller <dmiller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/24/2010 9:01 PM, John Hudak wrote:

Could you be a little more specific about what you mean by 'everything'? semt faxes? receoved faxes, config files?

Sent, received, and logs - absolutely.  Config files?  Those probably have to stay with the server - and I don't have any problem with that.  I just want the bulk storage to be on my main fileserver, and any "overhead", i.e. webserver, to be off-loaded as well.  Just leave that poor little box to drive the modems - it seems to do it well.

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Daniel

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Daniel L. Miller <dmiller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 I'm trying to convert an older box into a dedicated fax server - but with a twist.  The modems HAVE to be in this box, and of course HylaFax+ needs to be running here as well.  But I want everything to be saved and accessed from my file/web server.  I'm also using Avantfax for an interface - and I don't want to try to run a webserver on the fax box.  At first glance, I see a couple options:

1.  Use NFS, and mount the majority of the /var/spool/hylafax subfolders from the fileserver on the fax server.
2.  Use custom receive/send scripts on the fax server, that copy the files to the fileserver.
3.  Something much simpler and elegant that I don't know yet.

Using either option 1 or 2, I believe I'd need customer send/receive scripts on the fax server that would use ssh to execute the send/receive scripts on the webserver to update the Avantfax database.