Moving Replica Location

[jkettler]

Hi there. I am looking to move some of our current Hyper-V replicas to different storage relative to the target host. I've found this KB article on VMware but none for Hyper-V. Is it possible to do this without a complete re-seed?

http://www.veeam.com/kb1458

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, you do not need to do a complete re-seed of the replication job if you decide to change its destination host/datastore. You need to move VM files to the new datastore and then use replica mapping feature to transfer incremental changes only.

See our User Guide for further details > http://helpcenter.veeam.com/backup/70/h ... ng_hv.html

Let me know if that helps!

[jkettler]

I had already tried the mapped replica but it didn't do the trick. I had to delete the Hyper-V replica "registration" and re-add it, then the mapped replica worked. Veeam support said I would have to completely re-seed but thankfully I did not.

[Vitaliy S.]

Re-seeding is not required, so there must be some misunderstanding. As to the initial attempt of replica mapping, did you have any errors that forced you to unregister the VM?

[jkettler]

Yes, the job would fail after sending the data during replication, but then auto-retry and complete immediately as "successful" without sending any additional data. This would happen each time.

[Vitaliy S.]

Ok, I wonder what was the error message of these failures. Anyway, good that you're up and running now.