BCM50 Backup Restore on Different Release

[Telephonist]

A colleague has a BCM50 with trunk port trouble, and he is going to pull it for repair, replacing it with his test system (same complement of keycode features). The in-service system is Release 1, and his test system is Release 2, and the question is - can the database backup from the Rel. 1 system be restored to the Rel. 2 system. Or will he have to re-enter all of the programming?

Does anyone have any experience with this? TIA

 

[MagnaRGP]

You cannot restore a backup taken at one release onto another.

 

[acewarlock]

You might be able to restore just Telephoney and Voice services(Vmail), but don't try anything else or you will hose it up.




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[vappl]

Trunk port trouble is common to old release of BCM 50. Did you try loading some patches first?

 

[Telephonist]

As far as I know, all of the patches and updates for R1 have been applied to this machine. I believe that the problems are hardware related, based on the symptoms and the fact that these are just CO POTS lines.

After MagnaRGP's post, I wondered about OS upgrades, and I was able to find the following statement in the Release 3.0 upgrade NTP:
A backup can only be restored to a system running the same software version from which the backup was created.

That appears to be solid since my friend decided to try to start a restore, and he couldn't even see the R1 backup files from the R2 system.

Apparently, the upgrade keycode includes a database migration utility that transfers the customer data to the new release.

Thanks for the replys.