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Error ID: 31224

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

Error ID 31224 — Data Protection Manager

Details

Product

Data Protection Manager

ID

31224

Source

Version

3.0

Symbolic Name

Message

Create protection group: <protection group name> failed. The ‘Allocate Replica’ task for <data source name> failed.
(ID 31224)

Explanation

This error can occur if you perform the following actions in sequence:

  1. Protect a data source in one protection group (protection group 1).

  2. Stop protecting the data source in protection group 1 and retain its data.

  3. Protect the data source in a second protection group (protection group 2).

  4. Stop protecting the data source in protection group 2, retain its data, and then protect the data source in a third protection group.

User Action

To protect a data source that has been previously protected in two other protection groups, you must first remove all recovery points of the data source that are associated with the first protection group as described in the following steps:

  1. Get a list of all data sources on the DPM server.

    $ds = Get-Datasource [-DPMservername]<DPMservername>

  2. Identify the data source that you want to protect in the list. Using $ds returns a zero-based array. So if the data source you want is the sixth one in the list, you would use $ds[5] to identify it in the next step.

  3. Get all the recovery points associated with the data source.

    $rp = Get-RecoveryPoint $ds[5]

  4. Select a recovery point that was taken when the data source was in the first protection group (for example, $rp[2]).

  5. Remove the recovery point.

    Remove-RecoveryPoint $rp[2]

  6. Repeat the last two steps until you have removed all recovery points associated with the data source when it was in the first protection group.