recovery procedure for VoIP PBX

My VoIP PBX (built on an embedded Linksys NSLU2) blew up tonight with a bad hard disk. Here’s the cheat sheet on how to recover it should it do the same next time.

• Replace the hard disk and reboot the NSLU2. Since the network settings are stored in flash, it will come up on the old IP even if the hard disk has failed.
• Format the new hard disk and partition it using fdisk. Swap space is recommended. Format it using mkfs.ext3.
• Run turnup disk -i /dev/sda1 -t ext3 to move the rootfs to the disk.
• Reboot NSLU2 and install Optware as follows:
  

  cd /tmp
  wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/slugosbe/cross/unstable/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-9_armeb.ipk
  tar -zxvf /tmp/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-9_armeb.ipk
  rm /tmp/debian-binary
  rm /tmp/control.tar.gz
  tar -ztvf /tmp/data.tar.gz
  cd /
  tar -zxvf /tmp/data.tar.gz
  rm /tmp/data.tar.gz
  cd /opt/etc
  sed -i “s//stable//unstable/” ipkg.conf
  /opt/bin/ipkg update

• Restore old packages – namely, xinetd, net-snmp, asterisk14, tftp-hpa, esmtp, and all the things that asterisk recommends you install
• Reconfigure /opt/etc/xinetd.conf to allow connections from the local LAN.
• Restore data from backup – namely, the contents of /opt/tftpboot and /opt/etc/asterisk
• Create a startup script for Asterisk because it’s missing in the default package:
  

  #!/bin/sh

  if [ -z “$1” ] ; then
  case `echo “$0″ | /bin/sed ‘s:^.*/(.*):1:g’` in
  S??*) rc=”start” ;;
  K??*) rc=”stop” ;;
  *) rc=”usage” ;;
  esac
  else
  rc=”$1″
  fi

  ASTERISK_DAEMON=/opt/sbin/asterisk

  case “$rc” in
  start)

  echo -n “Starting asterisk: ”
  $ASTERISK_DAEMON 2>/dev/null &
  echo ok
  ;;
  stop)
  if [ -n “`pidof asterisk`” ] ; then
  echo -n “Stopping asterisk: ”
  $ASTERISK_DAEMON -qrx ‘stop now’
  sleep 1
  echo ok
  fi
  ;;
  restart)
  “$0” stop
  sleep 1
  “$0” start
  ;;
  *)
  echo “Usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|usage)”
  ;;
  esac