After Upgrade Questions

[dori_bashan]

Hi

Assuming i will upgarde from BE 2010 R3 to BE 2014,

1. In order to restore old jobs (not active), do i need to re-catalog the tapes? or i will be able to direct-restore?

2. on active jobs that run every day, based on full and incremanetal with True Image Restore, will i be able to maintain the active daily incremental jobs without running Full backup first after the upgarde?

Thanks

Dori

[Andrew_Serna · Accepted solution]

Dori,

In response to your questions above.

1. In order to restore old jobs (not active), do i need to re-catalog the tapes? or i will be able to direct-restore?

              If this will be an in place upgrade the current catalogs will upgrade along with the rest of the install, so no you will not need to re-catalog the tapes, yes you will be able to restore from them.

2. on active jobs that run every day, based on full and incremanetal with True Image Restore, will i be able to maintain the active daily incremental jobs without running Full backup first after the upgarde?

            With synthetic backups I recommend running a new baseline then subsequent incrementals.

[pkh]

When you do a major upgrade, it is better to do a full backup afterwards because there may be new metadata added to the backup set by the upgrade.  This is regardless of whether you are using True Image or not.

[dori_bashan]

Thanks!