Re: [ovirt-users] Restoring Hosted-Engine from a stale backup

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Doug Ingham <dougti(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hey guys, > Just giving this a bump in the hope that someone might be able to > advise... > > Hi all, >> One of our engines has had a DB failure* & it seems there was an >> unnoticed problem in its backup routine, meaning the last backup I've got >> is a couple of weeks old. >> Luckily, VDSM has kept the underlying VMs running without any >> interruptions, so my objective is to get the HE back online & get the hosts >> & VMs back under its control with minimal downtime. >> >> So, my questions are the following... >> >> 1. What problems can I expect to have with VMs added/modified since >> the last backup? >> >> Modified VMs will be reverted to the previous configuration; additional VMs should be seen as external VMs, then you could import.

> >> 1. As it's only the DB that's been affected, can I skip redeploying >> the Engine & jump straight to restoring the DB & rerunning engine-setup? >> >> Yes, if the engine VM is fine, you could just import the previous backup and run engine-setup again. Please set the global maintenance mode for hosted-engine since engine-backup and engine-setup are going to bring down the engine.