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Supported Upgrades

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

• Arcserve Backup r16 for Windows--Includes the General Availability (GA) release and all of the latest service packs.
• Arcserve Backup r15 for Windows--Includes the General Availability (GA) release and all of the latest service packs.
• Arcserve Backup r12.5 for Windows--Includes the General Availability (GA) release and all of the latest service packs.

Important! If you want to upgrade from BrightStor ARCserve Backup v9, BrightStor Enterprise Backup v10.5, BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1, BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.5, or Arcserve Backup r12 you must uninstall the previous release and then install this release of Arcserve Backup. However, if you wish to retain the database information from your previous implementation, you must upgrade the previous implementation to Arcserve Backup r12.5 GA release (with no SP), and then upgrade from Arcserve Backup r12.5 to this release. To obtain Arcserve Backup r12.5 installation media, contact Arcserve 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.