Upgrade from Backup Exec 2010 to 2010R3 and then possible upgrade to 2012

Hi Steve,

You can do a direct upgrade to BE 2012 from the version of 2010 you're already on.

I normally stop the AV in order to prevent any issues during the upgrade. Also stop the BE services and grab copies of your Data and Catalogs folders before running the upgrade.

The link below refers to an upgrade guide which you should check out:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH180232

Furthermore, be aware that BE 2012 fundamentally changes the GUI and the way you both run jobs, and what previous jobs looked like, so check out the documents and links below:

Licensing

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH178483

What's different in 2012

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC5216

2012 Readme

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC5215

2012 EOL

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH178552

Lastly, check under the Videos section here...there are some nice videos explaining the new GUI etc on BE 2012.

Thanks!

After reviewing the differences, changes, and EOL from BE2010 to 2012, it looks like I will be stopping at 2010R3 for the time being. Are there any issues going from 2010 to 2010R3. Also, will I still be able to get a couple of the options for R3?

Agent for VM

Agent for Hyper-V

Deduplication

Agent for Enterprise vault

Advanced Disk Based Backup.

Some of the changes and EOL will not work for us. Any issues upgrading to 2010R3 and will we still be able to get the following options:

Advanced disk-based backup

agent for enterprise vault

agent for MS Hyper-V

agent for VmWare

deduplication option

All these options are available for both BE 2010 R3 and BE 2012.

There are no hassles going from R1 to R3. All you need to do is the following:

1. Grab a copy of the Data/Catalogs folders before running the upgrade in case anything goes wrong.

2. Run LiveUpdate after upgrading your media server to install the latest SP and any additional updates, and once done, push-install these to any remote servers you might have.

Downloaded the files for 2010 R3 and created the ISO, burned a dvd and attempted the upgrade. Did not autorun, ran browser.exe and received an error - Unable to load Language settinds file. Will not go any further on the install and closes.

Suggestions?

You might have a corrupted download, but try mounting with an ISO mounting utility. If it still fails, then you will have to redownload the ISO unfortunately and try again.

Use this direct download for R3 instead - http://trialware.norton.com/files/fc/Backup_Exec_2010_13.0.5204_MultiPlatforms_Multilingual_DVD.iso

Already tried an ISO utility. Will download again....

I'll run the download from there tonight and try it tomorrow. ANy reason not the just use a utility and mount the ISO rather than burnt he disc?