Updating and removing the Windows agent

Windows agent updates can be pushed to assets from the appliance or installed manually.

Updating the agent updates all applicable components in Unitrends_Agentx86.msi, Unitrends_Agentx64.msi, or Unitrends_BareMetal.msi during installation.

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For servers that are using Windows deduplication, you must run a new full backup after upgrading the agent.
In some other cases, a new full backup is needed after upgrading to the agent. In these cases, the appliance cannot run an incremental or differential until a full backup runs. If you attempt an on-demand incremental or differential, the appliance promotes the backup to a full. If the next job is a scheduled incremental or differential, the job fails. After this failure, the appliance promotes the next scheduled run to a full. Once this full succeeds, subsequent incrementals and differentials run as scheduled.
The Windows bare metal agent is required only if you need to run bare metal backups that can be used to perform image-based bare metal recovery of your Windows asset. For most Windows assets, regular Windows backups are used to perform integrated bare metal recovery, which is the recommended approach. To see if bare metal backups are required for your Windows asset, see Which bare metal method should I use?.

See the following topics for details: