About the different ways that you can upgrade

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 previous release

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