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Upgrade Arcserve Backup Agents Silently to the Current Release

Situations may arise where you want to upgrade agents from different Arcserve releases installed on a system to the current release. The process of identifying the agents, their release numbers, and the process of performing the upgrade itself, can take a lot of time.

To simplify this task, you can run MasterSetup silently from the Windows Command Line to upgrade all Arcserve Backup agents that are installed on a system to the current release.

There are several methods that you can use to complete this task.

• Execute MasterSetup directly from the installation media. Specify the syntax to upgrade all agents on the target (remote) system.
• Share the optical drive where the installation media is mounted on your network. Execute the command from the target (remote) system and specify the syntax to upgrade all agents on the local system.
• Create a network share and copy the entire contents of the installation media to the shared directory. Execute the command from the target (remote) system and specify the syntax to upgrade all agents on the local system.

When you run MasterSetup from the Command Line, you cannot upgrade the Arcserve Backup base product and Arcserve Backup options.

MasterSetup is installed in the following directory on the installation media:

<drive>\Install\mastersetup.exe

To upgrade Arcserve Backup agents to the current release

1. Complete the steps described in Upgrade Arcserve Backup from a Previous Release.
2. Create a response file using the steps described in Create a Silent Installation Response File.
3. After you complete the upgrade process and create a response file, open the Windows Command Line and browse to the directory where MasterSetup is accessible.

   Execute MasterSetup using the following syntax:

   MasterSetup [/?][/D][/H:<host name>][/U:<User Name>][/P:<Password>][/I:<Icf Path>][/AU][/O]
   

   Note: Square brackets [ ] indicate that the argument inside the brackets is optional. Angle brackets < > indicate that the argument inside the brackets is required.

   /?

   Displays the usage for this command.

   /D

   Displays the status of the installation.

   /H

   Specifies the host name of the target system.

   /U

   Specifies the user name for the target system.

   /P

   Specifies the password for the user name on the target system.

   /I

   Specifies the location of the response file.

   /AU

   Specifies to perform a silent upgrade.

   Note: This argument lets you upgrade all agents installed on the local system.

   /O

   Specifies the location of the output file. To use this argument, you must specify the /AU argument.

After the execution is complete, all agents installed on the specified systems are upgraded to this release.

Note: If MasterSetup detects that the Arcserve Backup base product is installed on the target system, the upgrade process fails.

Examples: MasterSetup Syntax

The following example describes the syntax required to upgrade all agents installed on computer001 to this release. The user is logged in to a primary server, the user name is administrator, and the password is test-001.

mastersetup /h:computer001 /u:administrator /p:test-001 /au

The following example describes the syntax required to upgrade all agents that are installed on the local system. The user must be logged in to the target system with user account that has administrative privileges.

mastersetup /au