[ovirt-users] Re: Involuntary emergency upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2

Thank you for your generous help. 4.1 wouldn't install because a number of dependencies were pointing to dead links. It felt like over half, although I'm sure it was a more limited subset. I will give these suggestions a try On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 4:50 AM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:00 AM Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > AFAIK https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1/ is still there, maybe > you could find some issues with other repos. > > > > If you want to take a shortcut, > https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1/rpm/el7/noarch/ovirt-engine-app... > contains latest 4.1 based engine appliance. > > You can extract the OVA file from there and use it to boot a temporary > VM with virt-install and then upgrade the engine there to 4.2 in order to > take a new 4.2 based backup that your can restore where you prefer with up > to date rpms. > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:49 AM <djohnson(a)maxistechnology.com&gt; wrote: > >> > >> I'm looking for a hand in recovering my ovirt cluster from a hardware > failure. The hard drive on my cluster controller failed, and I would like > to recover from backup. > >> > >> The problem is, the cluster was 4.1, which is less than a year old, > but was nevertheless removed from the active repositories back in May. 4.2 > will not recover from 4.1 backups. > > If you are brave, you can also "cheat" - patch engine-backup to allow > recovering 4.1. That's a trivial patch, and the main problem with it > is that no-one tested it, and I do expect it might introduce subtle > issues. But considering the alternatives, it might be a reasonable > approach. If you do, try restoring first on an _isolated_ VM somewhere, > try to see how the engine behaves after restore (it will not work > very well, because it will not manage to access its hosts - if you > indeed isolated it well enough), and if it looks ok, try for real. > > See also e.g.: > > https://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2017-March/080346.html > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1425788 > > That said, not sure why 4.1 does not work for you. I think it should > still work, although I didn't try by myself recently. > > Good luck and best regards, > > >> > >> The storage domains are all intact (I think), and the hosts are still > running (unmanaged). I've tried to manually restore the engine from > backups, but either the upgrade is reinitializing or I am missing something. > >> > >> Any ideas? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > >> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > >> oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > >> List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/HRIUSVMGGCI... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/3OIB2WQSMHV... > > > > -- > Didi > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/J2BB32HKODB...