How to upgrade from PIAF distro to FreePBX distro (do I need to?)

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Hi, I’m now to all this & I’m taking over for someone else who setup our PBX.
Our PBX is running on VMware 5.5
From what I can tell, it’s running the following:
CentOS 6.5
PBX in a Flash - Green
FreePBX 2.11.0.43
Asterisk 11.10.0
Module Admin doesn’t show any modules needing updates.

This is a production VM that’s been working fine for a few years now.
We wanted to try out the SIP Station free trial acct, before changing our SIP provider, but they said I needed FreeBPX 12 or higher.

I found this page: http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/PPS/Converting+PBXiaF+Distro+to+a+FreePBX+Distro
Will that script work for my setup?

Or will this manual update for FreePBX work for me?
http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/Manually+Upgrading+the+FreePBX+GUI

Thanks for the help,
Barry

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It will probably work, the script version numbers match the system you are running very well. You will want a solid backup you can restore from in case it doesn’t work.

If you have the option of setting up another PBX, you can migrate settings to current with this technique:
http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/PPS/Elastix+and+PBXinaFlash+to+FreePBX+Distro+Conversion+Tool

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Thanks for the reply.
How can I tell which version of PBXiaF I have, it seem to expect 2.0.6.X?
All I’ve found so far is: PBX in a Flash - Green

Also, it says it will set my FreePBX to 5.211.65-1, isn’t that pretty out of date?
Will I be able to update to FreePBX 11 or 12 easily after there?

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Absurd question to have to ask isn’t it, I just checked a purple system and I can’t figure out what version it is running either. That said, I believe that the 6.x refers to the CentOS version, which you can determine with:

cat /etc/redhat-release

Yes, it is out of date, but there is a supported upgrade path to current:
http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/PPS/Updating+FreePBX+Official+Distro

It should work, but since you are updating from a converted system as opposed to a native Disto install, you should be prepared to restore from a solid backup if anything blows up in the upgrade process.

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