I find this to be an unacceptable answer from Symantec. It appears to be a great deal of effort for very little gain, this functionality should either be; a) be a feature of all subsiquent version fof BUEXEC or b) an additional script should be provide by Veritas/Symantec to convert the catalogs. Ken thanks for the info (I didn't intend to shoot the messenger). My BackupExec archtecture is small and spread out at several different sites, so this means a great deal of extra man-hours for me to upgrade.