Can i use a replica for a backup copy seed of original

[RMullis]

Is it possible to use a replica as the seed for a Backup Copy Job? I know we can go the other way by all I have is a replica and with 4 servers each totaling 1 TB in size our DS3 is saturated and it has been running for about a week just catching up the smaller servers.

thanks,
Rick

[Gostev]

Backup Copy jobs must be seeded with full backup file (VBK) of the source VMs.

[veremin]

Hi, Rick. You might want to backup replica VMs locally at DR site, and, then, map a backup copy job to the resulting backup files. Thanks.

[frankive]

Can i setup a replica at our DR data center (just a daily replica) which uses the backupfiles from regular backup jobs to replikate from so I don't hit the production enviroment at all?

[veremin]

Currently, it's not possible. However, this feature is already included in our short term feature list.

Thanks.