Hello Everyone,
The rewritten Backup & Restore module is one of the major new features of the FreePBX 15 platform. It has been completely re-designed to provide a stable and predictable backup and restore experience across all FreePBX modules. Furthermore, a lot of effort has been put into its design that allows one to backup from an old major version of FreePBX (eg: FreePBX 13) and restore to the latest (FreePBX 15), something that was never possible before. This has been one of the major roadblocks that forced users to remain on old versions of FreePBX.
The new backup and restore system was a major development effort that forced a redesign of every single FreePBX module, as the backup and restore logic was distributed to each module to manage (as opposed to previously managing it more centrally). The initial launch of the backup and restore feature in FreePBX 15 was not as smooth as we’d hoped and the FreePBX team received many bugs and feature requests post launch. Given the magnitude of this rewrite, this was not completely unexpected, but over the last six months since the release of FreePBX 15, we have worked hard to fix hundreds of bugs while working closely with the community with a goal to fulfill our promise of a stable and predictable backup and restore system.
We are proud to announce that the FreePBX backup and restore system seems to have gotten to a point where it now works very well and has received positive feedback from our community that it is doing what we designed it to do.
- Every FreePBX user can take a backup of their system, and easily restore it onto a new installation to ensure faster recovery.
- Older FreePBX 13 and 14 systems have an easy path to migrate to the latest FreePBX release.
The list below (which is by no means comprehensive) provides some insight into recent improvements, which includes issues that were raised by the community as well as our QA team that have been fixed.
In order to try the latest FreePBX 15 backup and restore, please update to the latest EDGE release and try it out. We encourage you to send us feedback so that we can continue to make backup and restore a smooth experience. Please provide feedback by raising issues to our open source bug tracking system, or submit feature requests or improvements to enhance this module’s functionality.
As per our standard policy, all modules are rigorously tested by our QA department and only after QA approval are modules allowed to move from EDGE to STABLE. We are continuing to prioritize the backup and restore work to ensure quick feedback resolution.
A big shout goes out to the entire FreePBX engineering and QA team for putting tremendous efforts into making the backup and restore stable, and to the community who helped a great deal in testing and reporting issues to us.
FREEPBX-21385 | Adding an option in the warm spare section to remove Trunks from copying to the spare server, with this option the user can enable / disable this setting. |
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FREEPBX-21364 | Backup/restore doesn’t restore Dial Number Manipulation Rules in Trunks |
FREEPBX-21351 | ampwebroot parameter is set to a non-default value |
FREEPBX-21319 | Warm spare backup does not restore asterisk manager passwords and permissions |
FREEI-1358 | Errors when doing restore in 15 |
FREEPBX-21342 | Backup/Restore missing Voicemail Admin data |
FREEPBX-21327 | Backup/Restore missing IVR entries |
FREEPBX-21340 | Backup/Restore missing Directory data |
FREEPBX-21339 | Backup/Restore missing parking data |
FREEPBX-21258 | Backup & Restore - IVR Module - missing "Dial Voicemail" feature code option after restoring 14 backup |
FREEI-1011 | Restoring PBXact legacy (13,14) backup in FreePBX 15 breaks the FreePBX 15 system. |
FREEI-1336 | PBXact - Unable to take backup |
FREEPBX-21089 | Backup & Restore Module allows destruction of installation with just a click |
FREEI-1196 | Cannot restore a FPBX13 backup into 15 |
FREEI-970 | warm spare replication does not replicate any endpoint |
FREEPBX-21180 | Failing backup of endpoint if directory not exists |
FREEPBX-21106 | Restoring from backup won’t select trunk in outbound routes |
FREEPBX-21325 | Backup/Restore missing parts of config on WarmSpare |
FREEPBX-21385 | Adding an option for removing Trunks from copying to a warm spare. |
FREEPBX-21292 | Backup/Restore - Warm Spare - missing items |
FREEPBX-21394 | Backup/restore doesn’t restore all “IVR Entries” within an IVR |
FREEPBX-21363 | Backup/restore doesn’t restore Dynamic agents in Queues |
FREEPBX-21398 | Voicemail not restored from legacy back to FreePBX 15 |
FREEPBX-21370 | Backup Day Incorrect |
FREEPBX-21400 | User Manager missing functionality after restore of legacy backup |
FREEPBX-21349 | Extension’s “VM Extension” isn’t backed up or exported |
FREEPBX-21404 | Fatal backup error. |
FREEPBX-21425 | Error restoring SMS module |
FREEPBX-21399 | Firewall broken after restore from legacy backup onto FreePBX-15 |
Thank you for using FreePBX!
Kapil Gupta