Upgrading to Arcserve UDP Version 6.0 › Supported Versions for Upgrade

Supported Versions for Upgrade

Important! You may face data corruption for backward compatibility of protecting Arcserve UDP v5 nodes to Arcserve UDP v6 RPS on the deduplication data store. To avoid, refer to the Known Issue on Backward Compatibility Related before performing an upgrade.

The Arcserve UDP Version 6.0 GA build supports upgrade and backward support per the following rules:

Those environment is required to upgrade to Arcserve UDP 5.0 with Update 2 or above Update version completely prior to upgrade to Arcserve UDP 6.0 finally.

• For Windows, Arcserve UDP Version 6.0 supports upgrade from Arcserve UDP Version 5.0 with Update 4, Update 3, or Update 2.

  Note: For other previous versions of Arcserve UDP, such as Arcserve UDP Version 5.0 GA or Update 1, you have to manually upgrade to Arcserve UDP Version 5.0 Update 2 or higher Update versions first. Then you can upgrade to Arcserve UDP Version 6.0.

• For Linux, Arcserve UDP Version 6.0 supports upgrade from Arcserve UDP Version 5.0 with Update 4, Update 3, or Update 2 and Arcserve D2D for Linux r16.5.
• Arcserve UDP Version 6.0 does not support upgrade from Arcserve D2D R16.5, Arcserve Central Protection Management R16.5, Arcserve Central Host-Based VM Backup R16.5, Arcserve Central Reporting R16.5, Arcserve Central Virtual Standby R16.5 for Windows.

  Note: For such environments, you have to manually upgrade to Arcserve UDP Version 5.0 Update 2 or higher Update versions first. Then you can upgrade to Arcserve UDP Version 6.0.

• The Arcserve UDP Version 6.0 GA build does not support upgrade from Arcserve UDP Version 6.0 CV builds.