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FlexGroup conversion failure on SnapMirror Destination volume

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ONTAP 9
SnapMirror

Issue

Conversion of existing destination FlexVol to FlexGroup is failing with following error
Error: command failed: Cannot convert volume "vol1" in Vserver "vserver1" to a FlexGroup. Correct the following issues and retry the command:
       * Cannot convert data-protection volume "vol1" because volume is not in a SnapMirror relationship.  Create a SnapMirror relationship with the volume as the destination
       and then try conversion.

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