In medium or large infrastructure you may want to do a granular upgrade - upgrade to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components in stages

Logic described in the article is valid for upgrade to Acronis Backup 11.5 (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5). For more information see Acronis Backup Advanced: Upgrade Sequence

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In medium or large infrastructure you may want to do a granular upgrade - upgrade to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components in stages.

The idea is that you can first upgrade to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components for centralized management, and only then upgrade the Acronis Agents in stages. This means that there will be a transition period where you will have both Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agents and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agents operating in the same infrastructure.

The main components for centralized management of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 are compatible with the Agents of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. See Acronis Backup & Recovery 11: Components Compatibility with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.

You can have and operate both Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agents and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agents with centralized management components of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11:

(!) Components of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 can only be installed over components of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Build 11639 (U2) or higher.

More information

See also:

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11: Upgrade Scenarios
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced: Technical Upgrade Sequence