Backup v18 Windows, Restore v20 Linux Without activation

[NJohnson]

As the title of the post states, I am currently running v18 pro on Windows and I'm wanting to restore my backup to a newly deployed v20 Linux. I know I can do that because I did it on one of our small single rooftop installations (7-8 users) over the weekend. My question is can I do that without going through the activation/upgrade process? I have a v18 instance that runs just over 200 extensions across 8 rooftops and I want to be able to go through and set all my new department hours and permissions at my leisure and take care of any issues that might come up prior to "flipping the switch" to the new v20 Linux instance. It is my understanding that If I start the newly created V20 Linux version, it will update my existing 3CX pro license to V20, which is not available for Windows (only Enterprise is available for v20 on new Windows installs), thus keeping me from rolling back in the event there is a major issue. If this isn't possible, I can live with that. I just didn't want to be rushed to get that large of an install done in one shot if I can keep from it.

 

[NicholasP_3CX]

You can define office hours for your Groups in your Version 18 Admin Console. Not the Management Console, but from the admin Console of the web client of a System Owner or System Admin user.

These will carry over to your version 20 configuration so you dont need to do the work afterwards.

 

[NJohnson]

Currently, we don't utilize groups and all "business hours" are on each DID under inbound rules. In v20, inbound rules are gone and I'll have to set the business hours manually regardless if the departments already exist or not, because that didn't carry over in the small upgrade I did over this past weekend and I have to manually set it, which isn't a problem when there's only one DID and one department. When you have the amount that we do on one instance, it's a lot more involved. We have between 60-80 DIDs on that 3CX instance. That's still a lot to do in one shot. Maybe I missed something during the upgrade of the small instance, but I'm anticipating a similar result based on that experience. If there's a better way to do it, I would love the advice.