How to upgrade BE2010 R3 database from SQL Express to SQL Express 2008 locally?

[Alex_Chang]

Dear Sir,

As title, is it possible or any idea?  Please advise.

My steps as below

     1.Upgrade SQL Express from 2005 to 2008 locally.

     2.Migrate BE2010 R3 Database(configuration/jobs/logs/keys) from 2005 to 2008

Now

BE2010 R3 work with SQL Express on Win2k8 x64.

Future

BE2010 R3 & Websense will put them together on a server with SQL Express 2008.

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check the link below (3rd Party link) and specifically the last comment:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/134906-backup-exec-bedb-database-has-grown-to-sql-express-2005...

Thanks!

EDIT: if you use those steps, just make sure you have copies of the Data/Catalogs folders and specifically bedb.bak and the BEDB itself.