PBX configuration dump

[fcutler]

Is there a way to export the complete Mitel 3300 MXe configuration versus exporting individual forms to .csv?

[ralph]

Not really -  but sort of.

There's no way to export everything to a CSV file.   I've never seen that anyone has ever created a way to convert a downloaded data base - that would be pretty cool.

But.
There is something.
Back in the "old days" we used to dump the entire database to paper.   
You can still do the same thing.  (save it to a file)

Here's how you do it:

Telnet to the system.
Go to the maintenance section.
Enter "my lpr3"
Enter "fo all"
Set your terminal software to capture everything to file - depending on what software you're using you may have to set your PC to Print to File.
Enter "en pr/n" 

If you want to stop the process for any reason you can enter a CTL-C.   Then enter "Can print all"

Next go to lunch, go to dinner, go home, get plenty of sleep and then when you get back it might be done.

It will not be in CSV format and it will not have all the forms and all the info you may want but in general if you needed to rebuild a system from scratch this would be a good start.

Ralph

[fcutler]

Thanks Ralph, this is some good info! If I set PuTTY to log all session output and specify the file will that work for this? It seems like it will be a gigantic file, is it just plaintext or formatted in some other way?

[johnp]

Plain ascii text

[ralph]

If I set PuTTY to log all session output and specify the file will that work for this?

Putty will work just fine.    You'll capture a bunch of formatting garbage at the beginning and end of the file so you'll have to edit that out.

Ralph

[Dogbreath]

You can schedule a CSV export [to FTP I assume, it doesn't actually say anywhere on the help page, so who knows] but unfortunately it appears you can only do one form at a time.

[lundah]

You can schedule a CSV export [to FTP I assume, it doesn't actually say anywhere on the help page, so who knows] but unfortunately it appears you can only do one form at a time.

Yes anything done in the scheduler will be sent to the server defined in "External FTP server" form.