<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">When attempting to do the restore to a clean engine install before engine setup is run as per the documentation, the restore ends with an error about restoring the history.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">root@fai-kvm-engine backup]# engine-backup --mode=restore --file=/backup/ovirt-backup07302017.bak --log=/usr/local/share/ovirtbackup.log --provision-db --provision-dwh-db --restore-permissions</div><div class="">Preparing to restore:</div><div class="">- Unpacking file '/backup/ovirt-backup07302017.bak'</div><div class="">Restoring:</div><div class="">- Files</div><div class="">Provisioning PostgreSQL users/databases:</div><div class="">- user 'engine', database 'engine'</div><div class="">- user 'ovirt_engine_history', database 'ovirt_engine_history'</div><div class="">Restoring:</div><div class="">- Engine database 'engine'</div><div class=""> - Cleaning up temporary tables in engine database 'engine'</div><div class=""> - Resetting DwhCurrentlyRunning in dwh_history_timekeeping in engine database</div><div class="">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Please note:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The engine database was backed up at 2017-07-30 23:05:43.000000000 -0800 .</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Objects that were added, removed or changed after this date, such as virtual</div><div class="">machines, disks, etc., are missing in the engine, and will probably require</div><div class="">recovery or recreation.</div><div class="">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">- DWH database 'ovirt_engine_history'</div><div class="">FATAL: Errors while restoring database ovirt_engine_history</div><div class="">[root@fai-kvm-engine backup]# </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">If I continue and run engine-setup, then it fails with the following.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It seems that you are running your engine inside of the hosted-engine VM and are not in "Global Maintenance" mode<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 2, 2017, at 9:56 AM, Gary Pedretty <<a href="mailto:gary@ravnalaska.net" class="">gary@ravnalaska.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">When restoring a self hosted-engine from a backup, the documentation at<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/self-hosted/chap-Backing_up_and_Restoring_an_EL-Based_Self-Hosted_Environment/" class="">https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/self-hosted/chap-Backing_up_and_Restoring_an_EL-Based_Self-Hosted_Environment/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Shows creating a new host server and then doing the hosted-engine —deploy and manually installing the ovirt-engine instead of using the ovirt-engine-appliance. If the hosted-engine deployment that was backed up and is being restored, was created using the appliance, should I still follow this documentation and manually install the engine, run the restore, then do the engine-setup? Or should I use the ovirt-engine-appliance and just run the restore before the engine-setup?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gary</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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