[Users] Management DB-Backup

[Eli Mesika]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> To: "Ofer Schreiber" <oschreib at redhat.com>, "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:13:16 PM
> Subject: Fwd: [Users] Management DB-Backup
> 
> engine-backup.sh --mode=backup does not check/stop the engine/jboss and
> does not alert the user.
> 
> Should it?

No

> 
> I have zero knowledge regarding the way the engine works with the database.
> Are we completely certain that any "logical transaction" is translated
> one-to-one to a single database transaction? If so, in principle we can
> back it up without taking the engine down. IMHO...

I see no reason to force engine down in backup , only in restore when we are stopping the existing database and creating a new clean one , so we have to verify that engine does not lock some objects

> 
> Anyway, we should definitely pick up one of the existing relevant wiki
> pages, update it, and add a link to it from all the others.
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=backup+site%3Awww.ovirt.org
> --
> Didi
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske at mittwald.de>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:35:00 AM
> Subject: [Users] Management DB-Backup
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just a short question:
> 
> is this procedure still valid for a full DB-Backup and Restore?
> 
> http://www.ovirt.org/Backup_engine_db
> 
> I already figured out that it's tailored just for fedora setups, not
> el6 (systemctl).
> 
> 
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> 
> Sven Kieske
> 
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