Upgrade to latest version of SQL Server Backup software

If you are using an old version of SQL Server Backup software , we recommend you upgrade it to the latest version .

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- Upgrade from 6.x or earlier version
- Upgrade from 7.x or later version

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Upgrade from 6.x or earlier version

The software architecture have been changed a lot since 7.0 version , if you are using 6.x or earlier version of the product ,you can not upgrade the old version by just overwriting its old files simply.

You have two ways to upgrade your current software to its latest version.

The first way is simple and safe , and is recommended by us:

- Stop all scheduled jobs created by old version of this product (By clicking "Scheduler" link button and delete all scheduled tasks listed.) . This step is very important , or the old scheduled backup will confuse new version of this product , you may be unable to restore your database in case it fails.
- Install the latest version of this product to another directory.
- Configure new backup job and schedule for your databases .
- After new full backups are executed successfully for all your databases, you can determine whether the old version is uninstalled or not . If you think that old backups are still valuable and do not want to restore database to latest state, you can keep old version for some days.

The second way is :

- Stop all scheduled jobs created by old version of this product , do this step just we instructed in the first way.
- Install the latest version of this product to new directory, run and learn what a virtual backup device is in 7.x version or later of this product.
- Configure a virtual backup device on a certain directory or the directory of your old backups , copy old backups if necessarily to this backup device.
- Import old backups to new version of this product by using "Import backup" function.
- Uninstall the old version at any time you want.

Upgrade from 7.x or later version

If you are using a 7.x or later version , you can do following steps to upgrade it to latest version:

- For safe reason , please copy all files in old installation directory to another folder to backup old files for this product, they can be recovery once you failed to upgrade to new version .
- Uninstall your current version of this product .
- After step 2 , some files are still left in installation directory , to keep your previous work , please DO NOT DELETE these files , this is very important.
- Install the latest version of this product to the original installation directory .
- If the Storage Server is installed individually on another machine , please do the same steps above to upgrade it form old version .
- If you success upgrade it to this new version , old catalog file is rename to a file with a day and time file extension . Open the new program and checked the old job settings , if some fields are changed or incorrect , please correct them.
- If you fail to upgrade the program , please copy the old files back to installation folder and contact us at support@databk.com.