On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:49 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why would it not be possible to build into sipx, a method by which users 
> could backup and restore onto newer versions.
>
> Several times over the course of using sipx and having to upgrade, it has 
> been a rather painful process to go from one server to another. One of the 
> problems is the ssl certificates which many seem to have problems with.
>
> I am not 100% on this but, doesn't the backup process backup the ssl stuff as 
> well, so that if you try to restore it onto a new server, it fails for 
> various reasons? Not sure, it's been a while because these days, when there 
> is an update, I prefer to build a new server, and slowly move people over, 
> one at a time.

In 4.6 ssl certs are only used for external facing systems, SIP
proxy/bridge for TLS and Apache for web interface.  So if you restore
into a system w/different domain, only those things break which not
that critical to system operation.

Internally we use SSL keys w/o domain names attached just for
public/private key pair.  They are not backed up with the system, in
fact if you're moving, you shouldn't transfer them.

> I was wondering if restoring onto new versions might be something that 
> developers would be willing to give some thought to, in order to make 
> upgrades less difficult on some of us who use sipx regularly but aren't 
> guru's on it.
>
> Will it be possible for example to backup 4.4.0 to restore it onto the new 
> version coming?

yes, you can restore from 4.4, and bonus, while restoring you can
change domain name.  IP address and FQDN will be automatically fixed.

  http://youtu.be/SJVmtNEowrM

About 22min in you'll see demo of restore 4.4 into 4.6.  I'll give a
more elaborate demo using the web ui at the end of this month.  Feel
free to vote up that topic.

http://goo.gl/mod/uPQl
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