Hi,
thank you for your help.

I think this is not a critical failure, and is not what failed the restore.

Recently I tried the 4.3.11 beta and 4.4.1 and the error now is different:

[ INFO ] Upgrading CA\n[ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': (2, 'No such file or directory')\n[ INFO ] DNF Performing DNF transaction rollback\n

This is part of 'engine-setup' output, which 'hosted-engine' runs inside the engine VM. If you can access the engine VM, you can try finding more information in /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/* there. Otherwise, the hosted-engine deploy script might have managed to get a copy to /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/engine-logs*. Please check/share these. Thanks.

Unfortunately the installation procedures when exiting, deletes the vm, hence I can't log in.
Here are the ERROR messages I got on the logs copied on the host:

engine.log:2020-07-08 15:05:04,178+02 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.pm.FenceProxyLocator] (EE-ManagedScheduledExecutorService-engineScheduledThreadPool-Thread-89) [45a7e7f3] Can not run fence action on host '<erased_for_privacy>', no suitable proxy host was found.

server.log:2020-07-08 15:09:23,081+02 ERROR [org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy_jaxrs.i18n] (default task-1) RESTEASY002010: Failed to execute: javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException: HTTP 404 Not Found
server.log:2020-07-08 15:14:19,804+02 ERROR [org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy_jaxrs.i18n] (default task-1) RESTEASY002010: Failed to execute: javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException: HTTP 404 Not Found
grep: setup: Is a directory

Not very helpful.

I simply can't figure out what file is missing.
If, as a test, I try to install the HE without restoring the backup, the installation goes smoothly to the end, but at that point I can't restore the backup, as far as I can understand.

Another option is to do the restore manually. To find relevant information, search the net for "enginevm_before_engine_setup".

Later I will give it a try.

Andrea

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