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John_Burg
Level 3
10 years ago

ARCserve to Backup Exec

Hello everyone, We are planning to migrate from ARCserve r16.5 SP1 to the latest Backup Exec. The plan is to do this without losing our old backups from ARCserve. So my question is can we insta...
  • VJware's avatar
    10 years ago

    When installing BE with another backup software, you'll have to ensure the BE's backup schedules, vss snapshots do not conflict with ArcServe's.

    Secondly, if using a tape storage, BE will take control of the tape storage and this cannot be shared by ArcServe unless BE's services are not running.

  • Gurvinder's avatar
    10 years ago
    Would recommend to shut down arc serve services when BE is installed else may be a ndmp port conflict.