Backup and restore question

General Help
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Hello

We use the backup/restore module .

I want to know if it is possible to do a fresh install of freebpx , then restore our configuration.

Our current freepbx, 2.8.1.4 will not upgrade to 2.9 …

So I wonder if I could install freepbx from scratch, then restore our config.

If I follow the instructions from this link http://www.freepbx.org/support/documentation/installation/upgrading-your… :

cd /usr/src/
wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/freepbx-2.9.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf freepbx-2.9.0.tar.gz
cd freepbx-2.9.0
./start_asterisk start # for upgrades use: amportal start
./install_amp

So after a fresh install , then installing the backup/restore module, would it be possible to restore our configuration ?

thanks
Rob

2

No. You can’t restore FreePBX 2.8.1.4 onto a FreePBX 2.9 system.
You need to install FreePBX 2.8, then upgrade to 2.8.1.4, then restore. After that use the Version Upgrade module to upgrade to 2.9

3

Thank you for the information… It’ll be a good weekend project.

4

ok on a test system I was able to restore our backup to a 2.8.1.4 system.
then from there upgrade to 2.9.

Our production system seems to be somewhere in between 2.8 and 2.9 . sympotoms of that are in apache2 error logs like:
[Sun Sep 18 10:14:12 2011] [error] [client 173.48.186.201] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: fromstatsmonth in /replica/var/www/admin/cdr/call-log.php on line 370, referer: http://phonesys:1780/admin/reports.php

[Mon Sep 19 15:19:19 2011] [error] [client 173.48.186.201] PHP Notice: Undefined index: AMPEXTENSION in /replica/var/www/admin/modules/directory/functions.inc.php on line 274, referer: https://phonesys:1780/admin/config.php?type=setup&display=directory

So on our production system, I’d like to try to fix it and think this would work.

0 amportal stop
1- uninstall or move freepbx

  • mv /var/www /var/www-
    mkdir /var/www

2- stop mysql
mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql-
mkdir /var/lib/mysql

or is there a better way to drop the tables ?

3- install 2.8 freepbx .

4- restore our backup

any comments or suggestions?

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Undefined variables are trivial and can be ignored.
The supported way to upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9 is to use the Version Upgrade module.