The Current Recovery Data is Invalid occurs when attempting a recovery
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Description
Error Message
EC950019: The Current Recovery Data is Invalid.
Cause
There could be more then one causes for this error to occur during a recovery attempt. Please review the following suggested workarounds and related documents listed below.
Resolution
- If the disk or volume being restored to is smaller than the original disk, the restore process can only resize a partition smaller as allowed by the file system. If there is a significant difference between the source drive and the destination drive, the process may fail with this error. Replace the destination drive with a drive closer to the original size, the same size, or larger that the source.
- Prepare the disk by clearing off previous file structures using the Microsoft Diskpart utility and reattempt the restore. To learn more about the steps needed to use the Diskpart utility during a restore attempt please review the following article: https://www.veritas.com/docs/000095342
- Disable the "Verify recovery point before restore" option within the recovery environment and reattempt the restore.
- Use View | by Filename and browse to each recovery point to be restored, then select the View | by system to load the system index file (i.e. *.sv2i file) in the Recovery wizard to restore the recovery point. To learn more about system index file and its use during a restore attempt.
- Ensure that the destination drive is reselected or the previous restore options are modified after selecting the Restore option
Issue/Introduction
When attempting to select the destination drive location during a restore of a recovery point image while within the Veritas Recovery Environment (SRE) gives the following error.
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