Moving to the new hotness
tristan April 3rd, 2008
I’ve been getting a lot of great feedback about the Switchvox SMB 3.5 release and the new AA60 appliance in this first week they were available. And I just got a question:
“Is it possible to upgrade from the tower system that the AA60 replaced without losing anything or spending a lot of time and hassle.”
So I thought I’d lay out the simple procedure here for transitioning from another server to the AA60 Appliance. It’s so easy, even I can do it!
- Take a backup of the original server. (Machine Admin –> Backups)
- If you have any Digium cards inside the old server, take them out of the original server and install them into the AA60 Appliance.
- Install the Switchvox software in the AA60 from the CD that came with your Switchvox. You’ll need an external USB CD-ROM drive for this, there’s no drive built into the AA60.
- Complete the product registration process. (Machine Admin –> Product Registrations)
- Apply any updates to the AA60 to get it up to the same version as the backup you’ve taken of the old server. You can find the version in the filename of the backup. (Machine Admin –> Updates)
- Upload the backup into the Appliance. (Machine Admin –> Backups)
If you want, now’s a good time to upgrade to the latest software version (Machine Admin –> Updates) if there’s one available and to make sure you’re set up to have Switchvox running your nightly backup.
And you’re done! And so painless, too.