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Hi,
We recently missed renewing our 3cx license (several of us thought the other had done so), so our old (self-hosted) instance stopped working. It seems we left it too late to renew the license, so had to get a new one. We have now got a new license and set up the new server and that has all registered successfully, however we cannot import a backup as it says the backup contains an invalid license (and if I try to change the license in the xml file it shows the backup as invalid). Is there some way to take the information from that backup and apply it to the new instance? or somehow put the valid license on the old instance (when I try to update it in the old instance I get an error stating "Commerical Keys cannot be replaced").
Thanks,
We recently missed renewing our 3cx license (several of us thought the other had done so), so our old (self-hosted) instance stopped working. It seems we left it too late to renew the license, so had to get a new one. We have now got a new license and set up the new server and that has all registered successfully, however we cannot import a backup as it says the backup contains an invalid license (and if I try to change the license in the xml file it shows the backup as invalid). Is there some way to take the information from that backup and apply it to the new instance? or somehow put the valid license on the old instance (when I try to update it in the old instance I get an error stating "Commerical Keys cannot be replaced").
Thanks,
