Volume recovery may fail during File Level Restore with the “exceeded your maximum storage limit” error

Exploring a volume via Backup Monitor may fail with the following error:

If you experience this error, you need to increase the total storage limit in this region for the type of storage mentioned in the error.

In EC2 console, go to the desired region, find the EBS Limits section and press the Request limit increase hyperlink. Follow the steps in the web page to complete this action.

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