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Replica With Veeam

Dears,

I have 2 Physical Servers.
1 is having my VMs (5) and the other one is having REplica's of those VMs using Veeam.

The replicas are getting big (coz I increased the VMs sizes of their HDDs. and I am running out of space In the Replica Folder (D:\) of the second Physical server.
My question is the following
Can I delete those replicas and re-create them on my NAS ? (I have a QNAP that has enough space). or the replicas can only be on the Fixed disk of the Server (second Server that has Hyper-v Installed ?
Is it "dangerous" to delete the replicas ? How do I delete them ? just delete ?

Thanks for pointing me to the right direction
Env. Windows 2012 R2 / Hyper-V / Veeam Backup & Replication V9.2

Thanks again
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Dear Dariusz,

I am a little bit confused. Let me please explain.
" iSCSI to Hyper-V host and place replicas there" The think is that iSCSI is not easy to manage..and will be problematic to handle.

"safely delete all replicas from current folder and reconfigure replica jobs and point them to new disk located on NAS"
This is what I want to do. But then what do I need to do in Veeam ? Do I need to "point" Veeam to the NAS as "repository" ?
From where do I delete the replicas  ? From Veeam and re-create the Job ?Or from Hyper-V ?
Sorry for asking so many questions, but It is a production environment and I don't want to mess up things :-)

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iSCSI is quite easy to configure and once configured it works without problems.
Short how to do from QNAP site: https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/tutorial/article/how-to-create-and-use-the-iscsi-target-service-on-a-qnap-turbo-nas
You delete replicas from hyper-v host and reconfigure replication jobs in Veeam and point it to new datastore/disk located on QNAP. Or U can move the replicats to new disk/datastore located on QNAP and reconfigure jobs to poit it to new location. Then within replication job U can use replica seeding so it is not necessary to replicate whole VMs. @first job run after reconfiguration only changes will be replicated.
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Hello,

You have 2 options

1st option.

  1. You can transfer all the Replica files in the new NAS
  2. Add the new NAS in Backup Repositories from the Veeam
  3. Map all the Replica Jobs from VM in the new Backup Repository

2nd Option

  1. Add the new NAS in Backup Repositories from the Veeam
  2. delete all the Replica Jobs
  3. Create new Replica Jobs with the new Backup Repository.

With the 2nd option all the Replica will start from the beginning
With the 1st option the Replica Job will continue from the last incremental replication
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you cannot replicate to a backup repository. As stated in the name, a backup repository is for... backup!