FYI the interactions between freepbx's asterisk status bar and asterisk seems to be resolved in 1.8.3.2 Also the duplicating log entries seems to have gone away.
Freepbx restore is still having problems been testing it and it consistently causes errors in certain fields when restored. For example the email field under Extensions > voicemail has Value:
123@123.com Value:
When you attempt to edit this field and correct the entry is is now non editable. Course I am using the latest version of FPBX 2.8.x and NOT 2.9 beta.
Still debugging it..... yes fpbx guys have been notified who know how important it is.
Tom