Backup & restore + move to another server

Open Source Modules Backup and Restore
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I am under the impression that doing a backup & restore to a new system will not restore “everything”
What is included and not included in a backup?
Google of course says: from available templates, drag the Full Backup, CDRs, and Voice Mail
And I do not see anything about templates in the FreePBX17 interface.
Just a button to deselect modules that are all selected by default.

I am expecting from lookingaround that things will be missing.
Like custom greetings, recordings, MOH, and especially user voicemails.
Or does it backup everything? extensions & trunks & passwords as well?

Custom files includes ASTETCDIR
No clue what that is.

Anyone not really knowing what they are doing is just going to click on run backup and think they have everything needed.
As many youtube videos show.

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Run a backup restore it and double check everything to find out. In my experience greetings moh etc that you mentioned do move over.

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Thanks.
Good to hear.
I will of course test it.

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So far not so good.
Did a clean install and basic config.
Attempted to run a backup on that.
There is no /var/spool/asterisk/backup directory nor did it create one.
What gives?

Performing Local Maintenance
Finished Local Maintenance
Saving to selected Filestore locations
	Saving to: Local:'Local backup storage' instance ,File location: /var/spool/asterisk/backup/20250830-014057-1756518057-17.0.19.32-425895404.tar.gz 
Finished Saving to selected Filestore locations
Performing Remote Maintenance
Finished Remote Maintenance
There were warnings during the backup process
	The module callback returned no data, No backup created
	The module callerid returned no data, No backup created
	The module calllimit returned no data, No backup created
	The module conferencespro returned no data, No backup created
	The module miscdests returned no data, No backup created
	The module setcid returned no data, No backup created
	The module ttsengines returned no data, No backup created
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All modules showing enabled and up to date.
Nothing was saved at
/var/spool/asterisk/backup/

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Backups were saved…
They did not show up right away.
Bit of a delay.
The no backup created messages are confusing.

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Probably ok or something I’m just not familiar with or expecting.
I’d expect a clean new install to backup without errors though.

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Restore worked perfectly fine.
Was confused by both the delay before the backup file showed up on the local filesystem and by the module “no backup” errors.
This was my first time ever trying an inline backup/restore.
I usually work with Disk images and kicking them over the network for archival and backup for FreePBX.

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The “No Backup” isn’t an error per se the module it is referring to had no data associcated with it, so why back it up? assuming that the restore system has no data in that module, it makes sense to ignore it and move on. Saves time and effort IMHO

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Then why should there be warnings?
This implies something is wrong.
Especially for a first time user.

There were warnings during the backup process:
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“Informational”: Would be a better term to use.
Or “Nothing to back up here”.
Warning implies it was expecting to do something and did not and needs looking into.

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