Keep safe your data

In this article you can find our best practice to keep a backup of your Motion server configuration and logs (report tables).

Basically you need to backup the Motion DB. 

Some tables could have a big size, specially the log and the report tables so you can decide if move the entire DB or exclude those tables.

Log and report tables are:

cdr

sessions

voice_queues_log

report_* (all the tables with prefix report_)

Keep a copy of the entire folder /var/opt/motion2

You may need some files save into that folder, specially

• the entire folder /var/opt/motion2/server/files (it contains audio files, mail attachments, etc)
• The configuration file production.js under /var/opt/motion2/server/config/environment

The file contains the main XCALLY Motion configuration parameters and the key to decrypt the recordings files (if you use the encryption)  so it's very important you keep a copy of that file.

Asterisk configuration

• keep a copy of all the files named _xcally_ in the /etc/asterisk folder (trunk configuration, custom extensions, etc..)
• the recordings under /var/spool/asterisk/monitor (if you need to move them as well)