Backup Exec 10d (10.1) Remote agent for Windows and backup exec 8.6

[BT_Service_Cent]

Our customer is using on 2 servers the good old version 8.6 of Backup exec with a DAT tape streamer and Remote agent Windows NT/2000. Each machine runs its own backup solution.

Now whe are going to install a new backup solution on 1 Win2.3K server with backup exec 10d (10.1) and LTO drives and Remote agent for Windows or Netware servers. Which is going to backup the two old servers.

Due to restore issues we can not remove the 8.6 software on the 2 old backup servers but we need to install the remote agent for Windows on these machines to make a reliable backup.

The question is:

Can a local installed backup exec 8.6 version work with a remote backup solution while the remote agent voor backup exec 10d has been added to the server. Or are the major issues to be expected when we implement this. We do not tried this because we do not want so cause a server hang or something worse.

We hope that there are some people with enough experience on this matter

[Rucha_Abhyankar]

Hello,

Since the suport for version 8.6 has ben stopped long back, this configuration is not supported.


Neither the local version 8.6 or the remote agent of this version are supported or compatible with version 10.1 as both have totally different functionality.


You could however upgrade to version 10.1 from you older 8.6 version. But it is a paid upgrade.

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