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Table 4‑2. Recovery States (Continued)
State Description
Protection groups in use Plan contains groups that are being used for a test by
another plan. This state also occurs when the other plan
has completed a Test operation on the groups, but has not
run Cleanup.
Wait for the other plan to complete the test or cleanup or
edit the plan to remove the groups.
Direction error Groups are in a mixed state, which is an invalid state. Some
groups are Ready in both directions: a site is protected and
a site is recovered within a particular group. Remove some
protection groups.
For this error to occur, overlapping plans have run and
reprotected all the groups in the plan already.
Plan out of sync This state can occur under different circumstances:
n
Between a successful test recovery and a cleanup
operation. You cannot edit the plan when it is in this
state. Run cleanup to return the plan to the Ready state.
If the plan remains in the Plan Out of Sync state, edit
the plan.
n
During regular operation You can edit the plan.
Opening the plan for editing causes Site Recovery Manager
to force synchronization of Site Recovery Manager internal
data about the plan between protection and recovery
Site Recovery Manager servers, which clears the Plan Out
Of Sync status .
No protection groups The plan contains no protection groups and the plan
cannot run.
You can create empty plans through the API or by deleting
protection groups.
Internal error A protection group with an unknown state is in the plan, or
some other unexpected error occurred.
You cannot run the plan but you can delete it.
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