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I have my home phone as well is business phones running through the same server.
I  wanted the home phone to route out through one sip trunk and the business lines to go out through a separate sip trunk.
From http://mirror.freepbx.org/modules/release/contributed_modules/
Download customcontexts-0.3.7.tgz
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Below are a list of commands you can use from the Asterisk command line interface (CLI)
The CLI is reached by using the Linux shell command
asterisk -r
If you want debugging output, add one or many v:s
asterisk -vvvvvr
The Asterisk server has to be running in the background for the CLI to start.
If you want to run a CLI command in [...]

The SPA400 operates as a single SIP trunk, it does not allow you to configure per port settings. Its therefore OK to use in a rotary incoming line situation, but not good if you want to redirect particular ports to particular SIP extensions. In that case you may use a Patton or Digium card.
Connect to [...]

The key folders to backup for asterisk are
/etc/asterisk
/var/log/asterisk
/var/lib/asterisk
/var/spool/asterisk
/usr/lib/asterisk
/var/lib/mysql
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps
You can use this script to back them up into one gz file.
ora=`date ‘+%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S’`
tar zcf etc-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /etc/asterisk
tar zcf var-log-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /var/log/asterisk
tar zcf var-lib-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /var/lib/asterisk
tar zcf var-spool-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /var/spool/asterisk
tar zcf usr-lib-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /usr/lib/asterisk
tar zcf var-lib-mysql-$ora.tar.gz /var/lib/mysql
tar zcf usr-local-tomcat-$ora.tar.gz /usr/local/tomcat/webapps
# make one big file of them all
tar zcf asterisk-backup-$ora.tgz *$ora*
rm -f $ora.tar.gz
Also found [...]

I recently found this method of doing the backup/restore
http://www2.elastix.org/en/component/kunena/116-security/47135-how-to-backup-elastix-for-migration.html?Itemid=58
A few things to be aware of

Make sure the Elastix version is the same or higher than the version that you are transferring the backup .tar file from. Otherwise if you try to transfer to an earlier version the extensions will not transfer across correctly.
you have to [...]

When we put a call on hold using out asterisk server the Music on hold would chop in and out.
We found this choppiness only occurred using Pennytel and Engin, other VOIP providers the MOH was smooth.
Try this:

Make sure you’ve compiled zaptel and have ztdummy loaded.
Login to the server. If connecting from a windows system you [...]