Suggestions prior to upgrade to 10.1?

[Steve_Hammes]

We are planning an upgrade from version 10.0 to 10.1(d) very soon, any suggestions, things that may cause a problem during an upgrade? Our media server is running Windows 2003 Standard server and we have a 14 slot tape library, it's an ATL PowerStor L500 with a Quantum DLT8000 tape drive. I have obtained all the correct license keys (it was a free upgrade for us), we will eventually use the Continuous Protection Server as well. Any thing that will help us with this upgrade would be greatly appreciated!

[David_Chadwick]

Hi Steve,

I upgraded from 10.0 to 10.1 a few months ago and it was extremely smooth. I just installed 10.1 right over the top. It upgraded everything, renamed the entry in "Add/Remove Programs" to show "Symantec Backup Exec 10d" etc.

The upgrade works very well. It's such a minor upgrade that it's really not much more complicated than installing a patch. The MSI does exactly what it is supposed to do. The whole thing only took a few minutes and everything was exactly as it should have been afterwards.

Seeya,
David

[Rucha_Abhyankar]

Hi Steve,

You do not need to uninstall the previous installation. All you have to do is start the installation over the existing installation.


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[Steve_Hammes]

We have done our upgrade to 10d and it completed without any problems. We have run a couple test backups and everything appears to be working as expected. Sometime in the near future we will install the Continous Protection Server and do some backups to disk.

[tejashree_Bhate]

Hello,

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