Backup and restore without core impossible?

Open Source Modules
1

I just made a backup task in the latest FreePBX 16 with only the following modules selected:

  • EndPoint Manager
  • IVR
  • Music on Hold
  • Paging and Intercom
  • Recordings
  • Ring Groups

No folders were set to back up, and importantly, no “core” module selected.

Then I restored it to a FreePBX 17 machine. Within the restore log I see the following indicating that core was both backed up and restored:

Processing core
Resetting core module data
Dropping table trunks…Done
Dropping table pjsip…Done

And indeed, trunks and all the rest of core have been moved over. Unzipping the backup file I find Core.json, of course.

That’s obviously a bug, but I have a question.

Is it possible to just remove the Core.json from the unzipped backup folder and then tar the folder back up and use it to restore? Or do I have to manually do everything on the new machine if I don’t want to migrate core?

2

Backup automatically backs up dependencies. Not doing so may cause undesirable effects on restore.

3

That makes all the sense in the world… if there was any indication that those additional dependencies were going to be run. It was a very unpleasant shock to run that backup from a compromised machine, run the restore on my new machine and have to start over installing the OS and FreePBX because the core was migrated without any warning.