The internet is littered with people in the same predicament. Someone at the client however, deleted the installation files. Then of course, it asks for the 2010 installation disk.Īpparently when 2010 was installed, it was installed with a download from their website. Open Backup Exec, go to options or something like that and uncheck it. With that installed for 2010, you cannot upgrade to 2012 unless you remove it.
That no longer exists in 2012, cause it is it’s own product now. Backup Exec 2010 had an addon option called “Desktop Laptop Option” hence forth called DLO. You would think that a multi-billion dollar company like symantec would understand the importance of making one revision of software easily upgraded to the next. I started the upgrade for a client of mine from 2010 to 2012.
Ok, I’m not getting into how stupid that is, that’s a post for a different day.Įvery fucking time I touch backup exec to upgrade to the next version it fucking blows up in my face. Thank whatever god you believe in that backup tapes are on their fucking way out. Backup exec has been a pain in the fucking ass for years and years and years. It is the last fucking backup software I would ever recommend these days, and it’s still the fucking industry standard.
