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3CX Phone System for Windows System for Windows
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13. Backup and Restore
Introduction
3CX Phone System includes a convenient backup and restore function, that allows you to
create a complete backup of your phone system configuration to a file. To backup data,
run the Backup and Restore utility located in the 3CX Phone System Program group.
To restore phone system data, locate the backup of the phone system data and click
‘Restore’. Note that the current configuration will be OVERWRITTEN with the backup
data, and any changes that you have made since performing the backup will be lost.
Running backup & restore from the command line:
Note: Close the management console BEFORE making a restore.
3CXBackup /hidden backup / restore filepath [/? | | /history | /prompts | /recordings
Where
/hidden runs the process hidden so it will close automatically after completion
Backup will backup the database
Restore will restore the database
Filepath is the location of the database to restore from or backup to
Options
/? Is this help message
/history will include the call history database
/prompts will include all system prompts
/recordings will include all call recordings.
Example
3CXBackup /hidden
backup c:\data\3cxbackup.zip /call history
/prompts
/recordings
Scheduling backup & restore
Using the Windows scheduler you can easily schedule a daily phone system backup. To
do this:
1.
Go to Start > Accessories > System tools > Schedule Tasks
2.
Double-click on ‘Add Scheduled task’
3.
Browse to the 3cxbackup program , 3cxbackup.exe
4.
Specify schedule and account to use.