Upgrade methods for SFCFSHA

Symantec offers you several different ways to upgrade. You need to decide which upgrade method best suits your environment, your expertise, and the downtime required.

Table: Review this table to determine how you want to perform the upgrade

Upgrade types and considerations

Methods available for upgrade

Typical upgrades - use a Veritas provided tool or you can perform the upgrade manually. Requires some server downtime.

Script-based - you can use this to upgrade for the supported upgrade paths

Web-based - you can use this to upgrade for the supported upgrade paths

Manual - you can use this to upgrade from the previous release

Response file - you can use this to upgrade from the supported upgrade paths

Native operating system upgrade - use the upgrade software that comes with the operating system. Note that not all operating systems support native upgrades.

Operating system specific methods

Operating system upgrades