Upgrading from very old trixbox help

FreePBX Installation / Upgrade
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So here’s the deal… I have a perfectly functioning FreePBX 2.5.2 install that came via a Trixbox distro. I know trixbox is gone and that there is a FreePBX distribution now.

I’m getting worried I should probably update everything and start on fresh hardware as what I have is obviously getting kind of long in the tooth. The system isn’t massive, but it isn’t tiny, either. I basically have about 20 extensions of various types (some VOIP phones, some ATAs), about 20 DIDs I have hosted through bandwidth dot com, a few different IVRs, etc.

So if I were to do a fresh install of the current FreePBX distro on new hardware, what’s the least painful way to migrate the configuration?

–Donnie

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You’re going to love this. https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/PPS/Elastix+and+PBXinaFlash+to+FreePBX+Distro+Conversion+Tool lets you migrate all your settings from an old machine to a new machine, WITHOUT TOUCHING THE OLD MACHINE.

It lets you test and check everything before cutting over, and because it doesn’t touch the old machine, there’s no outage!

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Yeah, except it says it needs to be FreePBX 2.9 or greater and I’m still on 2.5.2. :frowning:

–Donnie

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Try it and see what happens. It doesn’t touch the old machine. I didn’t have anything older than 2.9 to test against when I wrote it 8)

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You should have asked - I still have a few “older” installs from the old TrixBox days. I think one of them is even older than 2.5.2.