[Users] Documentation: Storage Domain conversion from Data Domain to Export Domain

[Bob Doolittle]

On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Dafna Ron wrote:
> can you run mount and see if you have stale connections to the domain?

The only existing mounts on the Host are the loopback mount for the Data 
Domain, and the mount from Engine for the ISO Domain.

I can import another Export domain on the same host which was created in 
the normal manner (and then 'destroy' it), but I can't import the 
converted one.

-Bob


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> On 11/26/2013 06:22 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I am having to recreate my engine, and want to recover my old VMs from
>> the previous Storage Master Data Domain.
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>> A while back, Michael Ayers posted this recipe (the gmane reply feature
>> won't allow lines longer than 80 chars, even if they were from the 
>> original
>> post :(, so I apologize for the link ) :
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>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.ovirt.user/4428
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>> Should this method still work? I have tried to recreate this with 3.3.1
>> and can't. I copied over the old Data Domain to a new directory, and
>> edited the dom_md/metadata file as follows:
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>> http://pastebin.com/U4xJawR8
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>> But when I try to import it, I get:
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>> "Error while executing action: Cannot add Storage Connection.
>> Storage connection already exists."
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>> and
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>> "Failed to retrieve existing storage domain information."
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>> Here's output from engine.log:
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>> http://pastebin.com/NVdzLDXb
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>> Any clues?
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>> Thanks,
>>     Bob
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