[ISS Support Case] Historian Configuration Import Resulted in Error
Last updated: October 17th, 2025Description
Following TN1048 had difficulties networking older historian, so decided to move to 2020. Exported configs from 2014 R2 SP1 system (either to a USB or team viewer cant recall) Now trying to import configuration in 2020 R2 P01. During the import started getting 'a lot of errors' (like each tag could not be imported) SMC: The following query did not succeed: . SQL Server reported the following error(s): TagHistory being imported is an active tag (update failed) Now historian modules are in a mixed state (some stopped some started) Now getting message : Circular storage location could not be accessed
- Author: Kevin Modlin
- Published: October 17th, 2025
Details:
| Product: Historian |
| Version: 2020 R2 |
| Solution: [Solution is visible below when you're logged in and have a current subscription] |
| Date Created: | 02/08/2022 |
| Case: | 80929 |
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