TIPS How to upgrade

[Norskman123]

More good work by Nerd Uno and his meery men of Vittilites.

I have been running the Backup utility for a long time now on a daily basis.

What is not totally clear to simple lemmings like me, is that I would like to move the latest and greatest just released.

Can I start again, configure everything and then run a restore from backup to get back all the extensions, trucks dial patterns etc?

I am not in the mood to retype everything back again.

I was planning to load the newly released:Incredible PBX 11 etc released today

I am on:
PIAF 2.0.6.2
FreePBX 2.11.0.2
Asterisk 1.8.8.0
Centos 6.4 Final
Kernal 2.6.32-220.2.1.e16.i686 - 32 bit

Some advice on this would be useful

 

[wardmundy]

Incredible PBX is a snapshot of a build (built by us) that includes all of FreePBX as well as lots of other stuff. If you load it and then overwrite it with a snapshot of your FreePBX stuff, then you get a mess. Sorry. It's really not that difficult to cut-and-paste from an old and new server. Trust us. We've done it at least a hundred times.

If you're just talking about PBX in a Flash, it's easier. Just be sure to get your old system up to the exact same version of FreePBX that is loaded on the new server. Then make a backup and restore it.

 

[Norskman123]

ok, that explains quite a bit;
In my case I only have one machine that I use, that I want to upgrade.

Are there certain files that could be copied, I am just trying to save myself a lot of effort going through extension settings, route settings, dial plans etc.
That would be another way forward - its very easy to copy off the files. Otherwise I will have to take screen dumps or something like that of the old system. Wipe it with the new software and just go through every screen.

Any advice gratefully received.

 

[skywise]

I'm also thinking it might be a good idea to upgrade.
I'm at:
PIAF Installed Version = 2.0.6.3
FreePBX Version = 2.11.0.2
Running Asterisk Version = 11.0.1
Asterisk Source Version = 11.0.1

What's the best method of upgrading?
Ward's asterisk upgrade script?
Full reinstall of piaf 20644?
Or is this version good enough for now?

Greg

 

[rossiv]

Only thing I'd upgrade is the Asterisk version with update-source. Everything else should be fine. I would run FreePBX updates too.