Having recently set up Asterisk, I was a little unhappy about the default installation of a MySQL server on the trixbox server and creating the databases there.

I have a separate MySQL server (with phpMyAdmin) and I didn’t want to have to think about backing up and maintaining another one, so I did a bit of Googling to find out how to migrate FreePBX or trixbox databases to another server.

The results were a little disappointing, with only vague references about how to go about doing it, and they seem to discourage it. Boring!

Here is what I did:
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