Upgrading remote BE servers to 2012

[jlax1124]

I am trying to upgrade my remote servers from 2010 SP3 to 2012. Several have succeeded, but now I am getting failures with Error 1406.

Tried downloading iso and installing locally and I get "Error 1406. Could not write value AdammLocal to key ...."

Any thoughts? I have this situation on 2 servers now.

Thanks,

[AmolB]

Below article is for BE12.5 & BE2010 you may give a try for BE2012

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH66119

[jlax1124]

Applied Regedit as suggested in article - still failed, but this time with error 1601! - any more thoughts?

[VJware]

Create a DWORD AdammLocal at HKLM|Software|Symantec|Backup Exec for Windows Server|Backup Exec|Server  and set it to 0 (zero)

retry the install...

[jlax1124]

That moved me on to getting an error code 1602. Thoughts?

[jlax1124 · Accepted solution]

It turns out that the version of SQL Express used in old version is incompatible with new version, and requires that the old .mdb , backup files and log files be deleted. Do that, then install works - its a pain, but at least it works