Backward compatibility BE 2012

[guest]

I have a lot of customers who have a need to buy new agents for their actual infrastructure (BE 2010) but they have installed Backup Exec media server 2010. The new agents of Backup Exec 2012 such as Agent for VMware and Hyper-V is compatible with BE 2010 media server or to use new agents have to upgrade to BE 2012 is mandatory.

[guest]

The new agents aren't backwards compatible. BE 2012 uses a new licensing format (*.slf file that is imported into BE).

What you can do is get a BE 2012 license, and contact Symantec's licensing department. Ask them to downgrade the license to a BE 2010 license and send you the license key.

This way you're still able to upgrade to BE 2012 when you want, and you have the license for that too.