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Take Backup of your FreePBX-13/14 System.
Take full backup of your FreePBX-13/14 system using Backup & Restore module of FreePBX-13/14. Please refer to Using the Backup module for further details of how to configure and take full backup of your 13/14 system.
Install FreePBX-16 on another server.
Install latest available FreePBX-16 ISO from https://www.freepbx.org/downloads/ to another server. Please refer to Installing SNG7 Official Distro for more details about the installation process.
Activate FreePBX-16
Once FreePBX-16 installation is done, activate your FreePBX-16. Please refer to System Admin - Activation for more details about the system activation process.
Upgrade all FreePBX-16 modules to current
After activation , FreePBX will show you a pop up with a list of available module updates. Otherwise you can check yourself by using "Check Online" function in Module Admin. Please refer to Updates#ModuleUpdates for more details.
Restore
Please note that Backup & Restore has been completely re-designed in FreePBX-15/FreePBX-16 so you will see GUI differences in the way it used to work in FreePBX-13/14 vs FreePBX-15/FreePBX-16.
Please refer to Backup and Restore FreePBX 15+ for more about the FreePBX-15/FreEPBX-16 Backup & Restore module.
We can restore the configurations by uploading the FreePBX-13/14 generated configuration backup to "FreePBX GUI → Admin → Backup & Restore → Restore tab".
After a successful restore , your FreePBX-13/14 is successfully replicated to new FreePBX-16.
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