Replication and Deployment Utility Error -2147220320

[clay.lanford]

Hello Everyone, 

I am brand new to working in NI equipment, so please excuse my ignorance on most things NI with this question. 

We have an existing application image running on a cRIO-9063 controller. It is basically an ABS testing application that was written by someone else within my company. I have been asked to deploy this application on a new controller, and am running into an error from the Replication and Deployment utility. It's an older image (written around 2015) that I'm sending into an empty controller with no software, but I was told that using the RAD to deploy this image on a brand new controller will supply the OS, application and all required config to run the system. Any ideas on this error, or at a minimum is there a list of error codes from the RAD with troubleshooting advice?

Thanks

[clay.lanford]

Hello,

Any idea about this error? Just ran into it again

[clay.lanford]

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Upon further research, looks like it could be a missing directory. Will try to reformat the RT Target and see if that helps, per the article below:

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000YPlyCAG&l=en-US

It's not exactly the same problem, but I'm hoping they are related so will try this.

[clay.lanford · Accepted solution]

Update:

Looks like the trick is to install a full NI Max with versions matching your Replication  And Deployment(RAD) utility version, or your app image (depending on which path you'd like to take). In our case, the app image we were working with was v14, and we attempted to just install the RAD v14 to deploy the image on the target.

This failed, and resulted in the original forum question. Once we were able to get our hands on a full NI Max V14, we installed it and the RAD deployment worked. So there must be something in NI Max outside of the RAD that the RAD requires to properly deploy on the target.

Note: We had a different version of NI Max installed than V14 at the time of the issue. When we uninstalled NI Max, NI Visa did not completely uninstall, and so we had to manually uninstall it, including removing files manually as needed so the matching NI Visa would install. Something to keep in mind in case you get NI Visa errors upon an uninstall and re-install of Max.