Introducing CA ARCserve Backup › Upgrade Considerations › Supported Upgrades

Supported Upgrades

If you are currently using one of the following releases of CA ARCserve Backup or BrightStor ARCserve Backup, you can upgrade to this release from the following products:

• CA ARCserve Backup r12.5 for Windows --includes the General Availability (GA) release and all of the latest service packs.
• CA ARCserve Backup r12 for Windows --includes the GA release and all of the latest service packs.
• BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.5 for Windows--includes the GA release and all of the latest service packs.
• BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1 for Windows--includes the GA release and all of the latest service packs.

  Note: CA ARCserve Backup does not support upgrading BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1 for Windows in a cluster-aware environment to this release. To upgrade to this release, you must uninstall BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1 for Windows and then install this release into a cluster-aware environment.

Important! If you wish to upgrade from BrightStor ARCserve Backup v9 and BrightStor Enterprise Backup v10.5, you must uninstall the previous release and then install this release of CA ARCserve Backup. However, if you wish to retain the database information from your previous implementation, you must upgrade BrightStor ARCserve Backup v9 or BrightStor Enterprise Backup v10.5 to CA ARCserve Backup r12.5 GA Build (with no SP), and then upgrade from CA ARCserve Backup r12.5 to this release. To obtain CA ARCserve Backup r12.5 installation media, contact CA Support. For all other previous releases of BrightStor ARCserve Backup or BrightStor Enterprise Backup earlier than v9, you must uninstall the previous release before you install this release.