Upgrading Acronis Backup Server To Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER SBS EDITION - INSTALLATION UPDATE 3 Installation Manual

Converting group tasks with the upgrade tool
To convert the group server's group tasks
1. On the machine where the management server is installed, log on as a member of the
Administrators group.
2. Change the current folder to the folder where the upgrade tool is installed—by default:
C:\Program Files\Acronis\UpgradeTool
If Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is installed in a folder other than the default folder, change the
path accordingly.
3. If the group server and the management server are installed on the same machine, run the
following command (note capitalization):
cscript UpgradeTool.vbs GS [-r]
(the optional parameter -r is described below). Otherwise, run the following command:
cscript UpgradeTool.vbs GS MachineName -u UserName [-p Password] [-r]
Description of parameters:
MachineName
Specifies the name or IP address of the machine where the group server is installed.
-u UserName
Specifies the user name of a member of the Administrators group on the MachineName
machine.
-p Password
Specifies the password for the UserName user. If you skip this parameter, the upgrade tool
will prompt you for a password.
-r
Effective only if you are planning to upgrade the machines' tasks—see "Upgrading Acronis
True Image Echo agents and local versions (p. 31)".
This parameter prohibits the conversion of local backup plans, resulting from the upgrade of
group tasks on a machine, to centralized backup plans. When this parameter is specified,
local backup plans resulting from upgrade of group tasks on a machine, will remain local after
the machine is registered on the management server. Otherwise, the management server
will convert them to centralized backup plans and establish correspondence between these
centralized plans and the policy resulting from the group task upgrade.
Result:

The imported group tasks become the management server's backup policies and appear in the
Backup policies view.
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(After you upgraded tasks on a machine and if you did not specify the -r parameter.) When a
machine to which a group task was originally applied registers on the management server, the
corresponding backup policy will become applied to that machine.
4.5 Upgrading Acronis Backup Server to Acronis Backup
& Recovery 10 Storage Node
You can install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node on the same machine as the Acronis
Backup Server, or on a different machine.
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