Upgrading the FreePBX firmware

WLS-ITGuy

Sometimes I think SAM posts things to get @JaredBusch all fired up

Dashrender

@jaredbusch said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@dashrender said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@aaronstuder said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller I assume @WLS-ITGuy means from FreePBX 13

We didn't upgrade from 13, we did a clean slate build.

So was this for a new install, or for a previous customer? If previous, how did you migrate all of your settings over?

We did it on beta, so it was for internal. Wouldn't do that to outside customers.

PBX are really easy to migrate by hand, no need to bring cruft over. IF you have hundreds of users and complex IVRs, yeah that can be a pain. For a typical SMB, how long does a manual migration take, an hour? And if you are cleaning up craft as you go, pruning extensions, it can be a break even on time.

Bullshit. Again you have no perspective.

An hour to migrate an entire PBX? Voicemail passwords? Extensions and secrets?

Bull fucking shit.

yeah, I tend to agree with JB here. Unless you can script the creation extensions with matching passwords, etc, etc, etc... anything more than a tiny shop will be more work to rebuild and manually migrate than to upgrade.

WLS-ITGuy

@dashrender I know I ain't building new and migrating

JaredBusch

Firmware 21 released last week for FreePBX 13.

[root@fpbx ~]# cd updatescripts/
[root@fpbx updatescripts]# wget https://upgrades.freepbxdistro.org/stable/10.13.66/upgrade-10.13.66-21.sh
--2017-07-31 14:28:22--  https://upgrades.freepbxdistro.org/stable/10.13.66/upgrade-10.13.66-21.sh
Resolving upgrades.freepbxdistro.org... 199.102.239.49
Connecting to upgrades.freepbxdistro.org|199.102.239.49|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 13983 (14K) [application/x-sh]
Saving to: “upgrade-10.13.66-21.sh”

100%[============================================================================================================>] 13,983      --.-K/s   in 0s      

2017-07-31 14:28:23 (273 MB/s) - “upgrade-10.13.66-21.sh” saved [13983/13983]

[root@fpbx updatescripts]# chmod +x *.sh

As you can see here, my PBX has been around a while.

[root@fpbx updatescripts]# ls
upgrade-10.13.66-12.sh  upgrade-10.13.66-14.sh  upgrade-10.13.66-16.sh  upgrade-10.13.66-18.sh  upgrade-10.13.66-20.sh
upgrade-10.13.66-13.sh  upgrade-10.13.66-15.sh  upgrade-10.13.66-17.sh  upgrade-10.13.66-19.sh  upgrade-10.13.66-21.sh

On to the upgrade

[root@fpbx updatescripts]# /root/updatescripts/upgrade-10.13.66-21.sh
Check to make sure this is a FreePBX Distro system before executing
This appears to be a FreePBX Distro system as it has a Distro Version of 10.13.66-20

Your FreePBX Distro System is being upgraded to 10.13.66-21. Please standby...

<snippers>

Mon Jul 31 14:31:26 CDT 2017 UPGRADE 100% COMPLETED
Unlocked.
REBOOT YOUR BOX NOW FOR DAHDI CHANGES TO TAKE EFFECT
If you would like to change your Asterisk release version to
11 or 13 you can do so by typing asterisk-version-switch
from the linux CLI at anytime

bigbear

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@dashrender said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@aaronstuder said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller I assume @WLS-ITGuy means from FreePBX 13

We didn't upgrade from 13, we did a clean slate build.

So was this for a new install, or for a previous customer? If previous, how did you migrate all of your settings over?

We did it on beta, so it was for internal. Wouldn't do that to outside customers.

PBX are really easy to migrate by hand, no need to bring cruft over. IF you have hundreds of users and complex IVRs, yeah that can be a pain. For a typical SMB, how long does a manual migration take, an hour? And if you are cleaning up craft as you go, pruning extensions, it can be a break even on time.

Probably more like 10 mins, ammaright?

Dashrender

It appears that Firmware updates are now part of the system level updates done by yum as of version 14.

WLS-ITGuy

If I want to go from 13 to 14 I need to go here:

https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/PPS/Upgrading+from+Distro+6

JaredBusch

@wls-itguy said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

If I want to go from 13 to 14 I need to go here:

https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/PPS/Upgrading+from+Distro+6

Yes. It is certianly still beta. I had major issues the first time then minor issues the last time.

The last time was my company PBX and I have some strangeness with my desk phone connecting. But another user's desk phone is not having the same problems.

WLS-ITGuy

@jaredbusch Good to know. I was thinking about doing this but I wasn't sure if it was truly still in beta or Sangoma was not keeping up to date.