2014 backwards compatible with 2012

Customer recently experienced hardware failure on Windows 2008 server with Backup Exec 2012 installed.  Realizing BE2012 is EOL and not available for download, we're trying to confirm if newer versions (21.x, 20.x etc.) are backward compatible and could be used to perform recovery of BEDB from the BE2012 version or if we would need to download\install an older version (2014, 15.x, 16.x)?  I've been unable to locate definitive list of backward compatibly for these older versions.  Again, realizing all these older version are also EOL, we're just looking for any option to attempt disaster recovery of BE2012 instance. 

Thank You.