Storage Migrate a CR backup chain
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Hi,
I have a VM that uses continuous replication to a backup host, it runs nightly, and has 31days of retention. The backup host needs more disk space so I was planning on adding some more disks and configuring the raid array and creating a new SR then storage migrating the VDI's running on here across to the new storage repository, including the CR backups for this VM.I'm not quite sure how to storage migrate the CR snapshot chain which appears as 31 shutdown VM's on the backup host, without breaking the chain. I could migrate each individual VDI but I imagine that might create a full disk on the SR?
I'd like to reclaim the disks from the old SR quickly to reuse them, so ideally don't want to wait 31days..
Is there a way I should be going about doing this?
Thanks,
John
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The easiest solution is to change the destination CR for the replication, so it will start from scratch. I'm not sure you'll be able to move the whole chain like this (or maybe somehow manually but it will be tedious). I would go personally for a new SR target and start clean there.
