[Users] Recovering VMs when the engine is lost

[Joern Ott]

Hello Jiri,

as this was a testlab setup, there were no backups, but I managed to recover things another way.

KR
Jörn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiri Belka [mailto:jbelka at redhat.com]
> Sent: Montag, 26. November 2012 10:00
> To: Joern Ott
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Recovering VMs when the engine is lost
> 
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:03:24 +0000
> Joern Ott <joern.ott at ciao.leguide.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I managed to re-install the server the oVirt engine was running on in
> > my testlab. All the cpu and storages are still there and the VMs are
> > still running without problems. Is there a way, I can attach the still
> > existing nodes to the new oVirt engine and recover/import the VMs?
> 
> Do you have old DB dump in /var/lib/ovirt-engine/backup? If so, maybe
> restoring DB would be sufficient, won't be?
> 
> jbelka