How best to upgrade AsteriskNow 3.0.1 to something current?

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Hello,

I installed Asterisk 3.0.1 a long time ago. It just ran without issue. I have paid/licensed Digium addons for it. Now I find that it is quite out of date as I try to add things like a SIP trunk, etc. It also seems like AsteriskNow 3.0.1 kind of fizzled in favor of better integration with FreePBX in newer versions.

I could blank everything and start over but I want to keep my call logs, voice prompts and configs.

What is the best path for upgrading AsteriskNow 3.0.1 to something current and with tighter integration with FreePBX?

Thanks!

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I’d suggest doing a full backup and maybe even doing a P2V of the machine as well as a start.

You should be able to copy the sound files, they live in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds by defaults

CDR records can be stored in a number of ways, /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv may contain them

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Good thing I did an rsync backup…

I tried the AsteriskNow 3.0.1 to AsteriskNow 5.211.65 script from the Asterisk help wiki and it destroyed my system.
https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FD/Converting+AsteriskNOW+3.0.X+Distro+to+a+AsteriskNOW-FreePBX+Distro+5.211.65

Half of the yum repos were empty or denied. It overwrote my commercial licenses. The process literally destroyed everything. I had to nuke the file systems, boot rescue and restore the full sys image from rsync remote.

I literally followed this webpage:
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Upgrading+AsteriskNOW+Version+3.0.1+to+5.211.65

What a disaster. WTF?!?