FYI Upgrade current iPBX to HiFormance 13-13

[geopeterwc]

I have a client running iPBX13-12L on on-site hardware - installed in early 2017. It's a small installation - 2 DIDs + 10 phones, and it's running well.

All current updates have been applied to the existing iPBX - Asterisk is v.13.17.1, iGUI is v.12.0.39 CentOS 6.9. I would like to upgrade their installation to HiFormance - but the HiFormance product is iPBX13-13.

Can I successfully apply a backup of the 13-12L installation to the HiFormance 13-13?

In this way I can effectively duplicate their iPBX, and work out any bugs - leaving their existing installation unchanged and not affecting the business. Of course, I could apply the backup to the 13-13 and just see what happens. But, I don't want to waste time trying that if the installation is likely to fail due to the difference in particularly the iGUI (v.12.0.39 to v.13.0.122.33).

Thanks for suggestions and insight.
/Pete./

 

[geopeterwc]

Well, no responses! ... I was not surprised though, as the backup from a 13-12L installation fails rather dramatically when attempting to install on an 13-13L! Rather, I had hoped that there would be something to start from ... but no luck in that regard. Am now in the process of building a 13-13 system from the Incredible13-13 ISO ...

 

[wardmundy]

Well, no responses! ... I was not surprised though, as the backup from a 13-12L installation fails rather dramatically when attempting to install on an 13-13L! Rather, I had hoped that there would be something to start from ... but no luck in that regard. Am now in the process of building a 13-13 system from the Incredible13-13 ISO ...

You can't move from the 13-12 with FreePBX 12 to 13-13 with FreePBX 13. Too much has changed. Sorry for the delay in responding.

 

[atsak]

This isn't as hard as it looks though - do the bulk handler for the extensions, that's the ugly part, then you just have IVR, Routes and Trunks to handle. . . . can be done manually usually in a few hours.

 

[geopeterwc]

Thanks for the feedback @wardmundy and @atsak ... turns out that the IVR and time-of-day, holiday and weekend schedules are the big deal in this situation that I was hoping to find a shortcut. And for only 10 extension phones, that's proven to be the easy part! For the other, it's probably
/Pete./

 

[Eliad]

you might try to use backup and restore from the FreePbx dashboard menu. i tried and works between same version Freepbx. no idea if it works between 2 different versions.

 

[atsak]

It definitely does not work between versions. It does between the same version of FPBX.