[Users] How to migrate the Ovirt management server/frontend to another machine ? (what files are needed, etc)

[Doron Fediuck]

On 27/02/12 21:04, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 02/27/2012 04:14 PM, Morgan Cox wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> As we are using Fedora16 as the OS on the frontend I would like to know
>> what files/DB's, etc are needed to migrate the management
>> server/frontend to another machine?
>>
>> I ask as the support life of Fedora is not too long, so for example when
>> FC17 is released I would like to migrate the machine to that - by
>> migrate I mean backup and re-install.
>>
>> Is there any info anywhere showing what files I would need to
>> migrate/backup to a new frontend server? - I assume its going to be a DB
>> and several files - I would just like to know for sure.
> 
> actually, you mean "engine" which includes backend/frontend as current naming goes (I first though you wanted only the webadmin/userportal ("frontend") on a separate machine.
> as for content:
> db, conf and certificate files comes to mind.
> a backup/restore script could be nice if you write one and contribute it.
WRT certificates, note that hostname should nt change, or SSL will be invalidated.

> 
>>
>> Ovirt looks really nice btw - thank you to all who made this possible.
>>
>> As a 2nd question - is there an ETA from when RHEL packages are going to
>> be ready?
> 
> while nayone can try and push this earlier than that, I assume adding target distributions would be discussed as part of the second version slated for may.
> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Second_Release
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