Upgrade 2010 to 2010 R3 Question

[Jennings]

Hi,

We have BE for SBS 2010 running on a SBS2008 server.

We are having a lot of issues with failed Exchange Backups to Disks.

Backups of the same to LTO never fails.

I am wondering if it is worth upgrading to 2010 R3.

If so

A. is it a free upgrade

B. Is it an inplace upgrade or uninstall reinstall ?

Many thanks for advice.

[lmosla · Accepted solution]

Hello Jennings,

it is definitley worth upgrading.  Backup Exec 2010 R3 can be a direct upgrade. It has multiple hotfixes for media as well as Exchange.  It should be pretty seemless.  

Stop the sqlbkupexec service and make a copy of DATA and CATALOGS folders

Install 2010R3

Then run all of the Live Updates  reboot and make sure you push RAWS to the remote servers.

[pkh]

Your existing licence keys will work.  You can download BE 2010 R3 from either the fileconnect site or

http://trialware.norton.com/files/fc/Backup_Exec_2010_13.0.5204_MultiPlatforms_Multilingual_DVD.iso

After your upgrade, do not forget to run LiveUpdate a couple of time to update it to SP4 and the latest hotfixes.

After you have upgraded to R3 SP4, push out the remote agent again.