Correct way to Upgrade / how to unbreak "broken" FreePBX modules

Still stuck here.

I installed tb CE 2.6.1 on an old IBM Thinkpad T42 laptop, and I see the FreePBX name is no longer on the PBX interface, so it's been de-branded and in the process of being fully integrated... Since mine was broken, and I downloaded and installed the latest FreePBX to get things working. I have no idea what might break or happen down the road, so I want to roll back to 2.2.x. Shouldn't take more than an hour or two.

But I'd like to get up to 2.6.1 without re-entering all my configurations for endpoints and trunks. I know it's all in the MySQL database. I'm not a DB guy, but I know I should be able to dump it all out and insert it back in after an upgrade as long as the table structures are the same. And I'd like to be able to preserve my IVR recordings and voicemail. I now know a full backup and restore over-writes FreePBX (or whatever it's called now) and it's modules

Is there a way, even an undocumented way? I've completely backed up the machine and can restore all the trix related stuff to another box that should run (a Dell desktop, not the SC440 I run the server on) or even the laptop, so I should be able to play around a little.

Maybe someone from the dev team can chime in????

Will this work:
(courtesy of http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/3.2/01_installation_and_...)

Backing up via the command line

To backup from the command line of your shell account, log in and type the following at the prompt replacing USERNAME and DATABASE as described previously:

mysqldump -a -u USERNAME -p DATABASE > FILENAME.mysql

You will be prompted for your database password and then the DATABASE will be dumped to a plain-text file called FILENAME.mysql.

The resulting file, FILENAME.mysql, is a full backup with which you can fully restore your database in case of problems.

Restoring via the command line
Restoring from FILENAME.mysql is a three step process:

1.
Drop the database
mysqladmin -u USERNAME -p drop DATABASE
2.
Recreate the database
mysqladmin -u USERNAME -p create DATABASE
3.
Import the backup data
mysql -u USERNAME -p DATABASE

Thank you,
David

Has this subject been talked to death?

I see older posts have been removed (like some when I was building this system last October). Have all the upgrade posts been removed, because I don't see much, and nobody responds. Is the tb mafia telling you to keep your mouth shut, or is there simply no answer, or is it that nobody cares?

Just curious, that's all.

Sometimes I feel like I'm alone in a room talking to myself.

Sorry deleted, replied to wrong post

Bump

Colin,

Thanks. I already tried to un-install them and upgrade them, but no-go. It's been more than a couple weeks since so I'll try again to make sure I got it in the right order.

When I restored the backup on top of 2.6.1, the forked FreePBX was broken and the only fix I could come up with is to install the 'real' version right over the top of the existing (forked up) version.

I'm still working on using a DBA friend to pull my config out of the database, re-installing 2.6.1 and inserting the dumped tables. I only want trunks and extensions. The IVR needs a change anyway. It's actually not that hard. I've been poking around in the tables and am getting a feeling for where things are. Just two tables might just do it.

If anything I'm learning something about a pointless exercise in futility.

Regards,
David