3624781 - Recovery of HANA DB fails with "RECOVERY RECOVER DATA finished with error: [449] recovery strategy could not be determined"

• You're performing a point in time recovery of HANA database, and running into the following error.
  • ERROR   RECOVERY RECOVER DATA finished with error: [449] recovery strategy could not be determined, [111014] The backup with backup id '1748160986431' cannot be used for recovery
    
    
• You can see the corresponding error in backup.log.
  • 2025-06-19T11:34:59+02:00  P2250927      197878aa515 INFO    RECOVERY RECOVER DATA started [1750325699861]
    2025-06-19T11:34:59+02:00  P2250927      197878aa515 INFO    RECOVERY command: RECOVER DATABASE FOR HAN UNTIL TIMESTAMP '2025-05-28 11:40:00' CLEAR LOG USING CATALOG BACKINT USING LOG PATH ('/usr/sap/HAN/HDB00/backup/log/DB_HAN') USING DATA PATH ('/usr/sap/HAN/SYS/global/hdb/backint/DB_HAN/') USING BACKUP_ID 1748160986431 CHECK ACCESS USING BACKINT
    2025-06-19T11:35:02+02:00  P2250927      197878aa515 INFO    RECOVERY using backup catalog 1750319278265 from /usr/sap/HAN/SYS/global/hdb/backint/DB_HAN/log_backup_0_0_0_0
    2025-06-19T11:35:03+02:00  P2250927      197878aa515 ERROR   RECOVERY RECOVER DATA finished with error: [449] recovery strategy could not be determined, [111014] The backup with backup id '1748160986431' cannot be used for recovery

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