@BenjiReis
I tried to fill in the IP address with brackets, but then the discovery of the NFS shares fails.
With regular SRs, it works fine without using brackets.
Yes, as long as the SR is not used by any other host/pool, it's safe to remove it. I'm talking about the SR NFS folder created by XCP-ng. Don't touch anything inside the folder except for entire removal of it.
@olivierlambert Without any change in the configuration, the backup now reports to be successful. Next step is to check whether the backups will restore correctly.
The mystery still stands - what was wrong previously.