[Engine-devel] Tweaking backup/restore of engine

[Sven Kieske]

Hi,

currently all events are stored in the table audit_log
which all gets saved when you use the engine-backup
shell script.


the event log is full of these login lines (engine 3.3.2):

25652	fdfc627c-d875-11e0-90f0-83df133b58cc	admin at internal
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000	\N	\N	\N	\N	\N	2014-01-20
06:39:17.222+01	USER_VDC_LOGIN	30	0	User admin at internal
logged in.	f	\N		\N		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		\N	\N	\N
\N	00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000	\N	oVirt	-1	30		f	\N

this makes the log and db grow very large when you use the REST-API
to query ovirt for various data.

Is this necessary for a working restore?
It would be cool if we could tweak the engine-backup
tool to just dump necessary tables so you don't have
to restore events from the past no one is interested
in.

How does ovirt react, if I do not restore the content of the audit_log
table?

If this works (restore without audit_log) I would prefer to have
this code upstream in ovirt git so I don't have to maintain
my own backupscript.

Would it be possible to extend the existing backupscript
with a switch to not backup logs?
Currently it's just "all" or "just db".

I also recall that there shouldn't occur multiple login events any
more since ovirt 3.3. but it still seems to be the case.

I also do not understand how you would manage a stored authentication
via REST as REST is stateless.

I would appreciate any feedback or thoughts on this topic.
-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards

Sven Kieske

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