I can report that a clean install of DP 8.1 and patch to 8.12 succeeds. This leads me to believe that either:
- my initial installation was awry
or
- there is something int the IDB that is causing the failure.
I will now attempt #2.
1. Clean install
2. restore IDB
3. patch to 8.12
Here is the process in more detail.
1. Shutdown services (omnisv -stop)
2. Manually copy the programdata directory
3. Run uninstall from Windows add/remove
4. Manually delete the program files/omniback and the programdata directories
5. Install DP A.08.10 (Jan 2014) version of DP.
- Execute from GUI using "Run as Administrator"
- Logged on to the system as the service account
- Service account is a local (non AD) account
- service account is a local administrator
- service account has user rights assigned (log on as a service, impersonate after auth, replace process token, act as part of OS)
- Install the following
* Cell Manager
* Installation Server
* Disk Agent
* General Media Agent
* Exchange 2010+ Integration
* SQL Integration
*VSS Integration
*Virtual Environment Integration
* StoreOnce Deduplication
6. Shut down DP services
7. Restore the following folders from the previous copies
- program data\omniback\config\server
- program data\omniback\db40
- program data\omniback\server
8. Start the DP services and verify functionality.
9. Install DP 8.12 (DPWINBDL_00812.exe)
- Execute from GUI using "Run as Administrator"
- Logged on to the system as the service account
- Service account is a local (non AD) account
- service account is a local administrator
- service account has user rights assigned (log on as a service, impersonate after auth, replace process token, act as part of OS)
See the results (TBA)