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CA ARCserve Backup Maintenance Notifications

CA ARCserve Backup displays a maintenance notification message near the Windows system tray to help ensure that you are running the most current version of CA ARCserve Backup. The maintenance notification message appears nine months after you install or update CA ARCserve Backup.

The maintenance notification message appears near the Windows system tray area of your computer's desktop, as illustrated by the following screens.

• Windows Server 2003 systems:

  

• Windows Server 2008 systems:

  

Maintenance Options

• Update your CA ARCserve Backup maintenance contract--To update CA ARCserve Backup, click the maintenance notification message.

  After you click the maintenance notification message, the CA ARCserve Backup, CA Maintenance Program web site opens. The CA Maintenance Program web site lets you obtain product enhancements and updates, and install new releases of CA ARCserve Backup.

  Nine months after you install CA ARCserve Backup, the maintenance notification message and the ARCserve tray icon open and close in 30-day intervals until you update your CA ARCserve Backup maintenance contract.

  Note: Twelve months after you install CA ARCserve Backup, the maintenance messages open and close in six month intervals.

• Do not update your CA ARCserve Backup maintenance contract--If you do not wish to update CA ARCserve Backup at this time, click the X in the upper left-hand corner of the maintenance notification message to close the message. If you do not want to receive the messages, you must disable maintenance notification messages.

Alert Options

CA ARCserve Backup lets you disable and enable the maintenance notification message using the CA ARCserve Backup icon located in the Windows system tray.