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I have a customer with a VMS that I need to take a back-up of, but cannot find the old BRU Utility anywhere.

Is this available for download at all?

No, not from NEC. I don't bother with trying to backup the VMS types. The Q version is what decided your BRU version you need & it takes way too long. And then trying to upload it is another issue. Make notes of the trans boxes, owners & subscribers + other data. That should be enough to rebuild.

Dr. PBX, could you use cosessions to do a file transfer of the avent.avd file to a laptop?

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DrPbx, I have a customer with an IPK and a VMS2-U10. The mail will sometimes stop responding (not due to full ports), so we're just going to swap in a VMS8-U10 to replace it.

I was hoping to be able to pull off all of the greetings, etc from the old VMS using BRU Utility.

Is there any way to save or backup messages, greetings from the old VMS? I don't mind re-keying everything, but it's a fairly large business (50-60 mailboxes, and they have a PRI with alot of DID's that are DIT to different transaction boxes). Not going to be fun to rebuild from the ground up.

I did this a few years ago when moving customers from hard drive to solid state drives. I used NEC NAC support both times, those guys are great. If there was a way to do it via CO Sessions, I'm sure it would have made it to the NEC NTAC tech forum. So at this point I am no help.

Is the VMS an OS2 repartee?

In co-sessions go to the greeting and press F2, choose save to file and then name the file (8 characters or less -this is DOS). This will save to the root of the vmail drive. Then in co-sessions choose "file transfer" (the screen where the call and connection settings is) and it will show the vm drive on 1/2 of the screen and your laptop on the other 1/2. highlight the files and transfer them over to your laptop. Then you can upload the greetings to the new Vm.

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Doghart, you are my hero. Thank you, sir! Will reply back after I finish this job. Looks like they've moved it to Friday of this week.

Thanks again folks!

Been a while since I've had to do that.

I will look through the main greeting, T-boxes etc... and make a screenshot of the oddball boxes and the subscriber template(saves a lot of writing).

Just setup the template before building your users and don't forget to set the PBX type in easymade switch setup.

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