what's the upgrade story (for backup server OS)?

[pesos]

Hi all,

We have a number of b&r 9.5 backup servers that are now running update 4. Is it supported to upgrade the backup server OS from win2016 to win2019?

Thanks!

[MichaelCade]

Along with Update 4 came the support for Veeam components to run on Microsoft Windows Server 2019, https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... l?ver=95u4

[pesos]

Thanks Michael! I should have been more specific - I know 2019 is supported but my question is specifically whether or not we can upgrade an existing b&r server on win2016 to win2019.

thanks!

[HannesK]

Hello John,
it was not tested by QA, so you can consider your scenario as unsupported (although it might work).

I didn't test 2016 to 2019. I can only remember 2012R2 to 2016 just uninstalled all backup & replication components.

Best regards,
Hannes

[WorkingHardInIt]

It does work well. I actually have VBR Servers that have been upgraded from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016 and now to Windows Server 2019. If you have a healthy server there should not be an issue and if there are any they are normally fixable or the upgrade rolls back for you. With a a good backup and VM checkpoints you have all you need to recover fast and go back. So you can go that route if you want to.

[HannesK]

thanks for sharing that experience Didier

[Mike Resseler]

Didier is right. The upgrade should not be an issue but as with any OS upgrade take care. (After all the improvements in upgrading scenario's by MSFT OS, I still prefer to do a clean install and migrate the workloads )

Make sure you have done a configuration backup inside Veeam also, just in case you need to start from a clean install when something failed.