CPM may replicate the same snapshot multiple times, causing error 500 during restore from a DR region/account.

Issue: CPM may replicate the same snapshot multiple times with the same Volume ID.

This may cause an issue when restoring and you may get an HTTP error 500 during restore

from a DR region/account.



Solution:

If you face this issue, please upgrade to latest 2.X.X version

Reference defect number – N2WS-3619, fixed in v2.4.0

Link to Release Notes and the latest patch

https://support.n2ws.com/portal/kb/articles/release-notes-for-the-latest-v2-4-x-cpm-release

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