General guide for upgrading AsteriskNow to new A 1.8/10.2?

[demani]

I was hoping to find a general guide for upgrading the AsteriskNOW 1.7.1 install to a newer Asterisk version (and alongside it, a new FreePBX). I've seen a few different things listing some directions, but then following with a bunch of errors/questions etc, so I am wondering how many of those were non AsteriskNow installs.

Am I better off just attempting to update CentOS, then Asterisk and then FreePBX, one at a time (and that order seems to be best)? Also, is there any word on the new AsteriskNow 2.0 leaving Beta in the near future?

And just how dangerous is all this to an install? I will definitely have a full backup, but what's the likelihood I can do this in an evening rather than needing a whole weekend?

[malcolmd]

2.0 will leave "beta" later this month.

[demani]

I see that AsteriskNow 2.0 has left beta and is now the default release. The quickstart guide appears to only be good for a clean install- but what about upgrading an existing install?

[mutineer612]

I would not recommend upgrading. I've recently migrated from AsteriskNOW 1.7 to 2.0 and a clean install of 2.0 to a new host (Physical and Virtual) and manually migrating your configs is the best option. If you have the export/import extensions FreePBX module you can easily move a large number of extensions, but everything else I re-entered by hand.

There are many changes from Asterisk 1.6 to 1.8 and FreePBX 2.8 to 2.10... that it may be some time before someone writes a backup migration tool. That probably is not the answer you wanted to hear, but I've spent several weeks working through various options.

Good Luck.