We looked into using the BE option in NBU, but we ended up with doing a 
total clean installation of NBU.
Our plan for restore of old BE tapes was to use the old BE server.

That plan worked without any problem for us.

/johnny

At 11:21 11-09-2003 -0500, Johnston, Christopher wrote:
>Greetings everyone -
>
>In our enterprise environment, we are currently running a single Backup Exec
>8.6 server for backups in each of our remote locations.  Due to licensing
>and new disaster recovery methods, we are going to migrate everyone to
>Netbackup 4.5.
>
>Which has proven to be less of a headache? 1) Uninstall BE , then a clean
>install of NB or  2) a straight NB install on top of the BE server?
>
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