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Data Migration from a Previous Release

When you upgrade Arcserve Backup from a previous release, you can retain most of your current settings and migrate the information stored in the previous Arcserve Backup database to the new Arcserve Backup database.

After the upgrade is complete, Arcserve Backup migrates the following types of data to the new Arcserve Backup database:

• Authentication--The upgrade process migrates all Arcserve Backup System Account data from the previous database to the new database, such as user names, passwords, and so on.

  Note: For upgrades to member servers, Arcserve Backup does not migrate user accounts and passwords if they already exist in the domain that the member server joins.

• Jobs--The upgrade process migrates all job scripts, such as rotation jobs, GFS rotations, and custom jobs from the previous database to the new database.

  Note: The upgrade process does not migrate Database pruning job settings from your previous installation. For information about specifying Database pruning job settings, see the Administration Guide.

• Core database data--The upgrade process migrates all core data from the previous database to the new database. Core data can consist of information about jobs, media, sessions, devices, media pools, file path names, file names, and so on.
• Log data--The upgrade process migrates Activity Log data from the previous database to the new database.
• Session data--The upgrade process lets you migrate the session data from the previous database to the new database.

  Note: The process of migrating session data can take a lot of time. However, you can perform file-level and session-level restores immediately after the upgrade and migration process is complete.

• Catalog data--The upgrade process lets you migrate the catalog database data from the previous database to the new database.

  Note: The process of migrating catalog data can take a lot of time. A progress dialog does not display.