
Hello, I currently have an Ovirt 4.1.8 installation with a hosted engine using Gluster for storage, with the DBs hosted on a dedicated PG cluster. For reasons[1], it seems possibly simpler for me to upgrade our installation by reinstalling rather than upgrading. In this case, I can happily bring down the running VMs/otherwise do things that one normally can't. Is there any technical reason I can't/shouldn't rebuild from bare-metal, including creating a fresh hosted engine, without losing anything? I suppose a different way of asking this is, is there anything on the engine/host filesystems that I should preserve/restore for this to work? Thanks, -j [1] If this isn't an option, I'll go in to them in order to figure out a plan B; just avoiding a lot of backstory that isn't needed for the question.

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 1:38 AM, Jamie Lawrence <jlawrence@squaretrade.com> wrote:
Hello,
I currently have an Ovirt 4.1.8 installation with a hosted engine using Gluster for storage, with the DBs hosted on a dedicated PG cluster.
For reasons[1], it seems possibly simpler for me to upgrade our installation by reinstalling rather than upgrading. In this case, I can happily bring down the running VMs/otherwise do things that one normally can't.
Is there any technical reason I can't/shouldn't rebuild from bare-metal, including creating a fresh hosted engine, without losing anything? I suppose a different way of asking this is, is there anything on the engine/host filesystems that I should preserve/restore for this to work?
The engine-backup utility is your friend and will properly back up for you everything you need. Y.
Thanks,
-j
[1] If this isn't an option, I'll go in to them in order to figure out a plan B; just avoiding a lot of backstory that isn't needed for the question. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

On Feb 1, 2018, at 1:21 AM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul@redhat.com> wrote:
The engine-backup utility is your friend and will properly back up for you everything you need.
Thanks, but that is an answer to a different question I didn't ask. It does, implicitly, seem to indicate that there probably are artifacts on hosts that need to be preserved, and hopefully I can find specifics in that script . -j
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