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      Pilow @tjkreidl
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      @tjkreidl @mchenry haaaa I remember how & when I was able to provoke this error
      I was trying to purge 12 "replica VM" with the new CR method by forcing CR manually to get 1 VM with 12 replicas

      so I ended up clicking START on the CR job as soon as the CR finished, and got this same error.
      this was because GC didn't finish the previous job. Just had to wait 2 min for GC to reduce the chain length and I could go manual again on the CR

      so I guess @tjkreidl is right, and the error message is misleading
      your CR probably finish before the one hour interval BUT Garbage Collector do not

      you have two options

      • space up your CR jobs to give GC some time to finish
      • find why GC is taking too much time (could be SR performance, nerver ending GC because of high I/O on the VM, ...)
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        Pilow @Pilow
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        @florent @bastien-nollet could it be possible to monitor GC job to pause the job instead of failing with misleading error message ?

        instead of TOO MANY SNAPSHOTS juste pause with WAITING PREVIOUS GARBAGE COLLECTOR TO FINISH and resume ASAP ?

        this would force the admin of backup to re think his CR RPO/RTO strategy but not fail jobs

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