[Users] engine-backup --restore

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trey Dockendorf" <treydock at gmail.com>
> To: "Juan Pablo Lorier" <jplorier at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:32:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] engine-backup --restore
> 
> I was having the same issue (and posted about it today, with full
> steps).  I'd reply to my current post to list but I don't seem to
> receive my own posts.
> 
> I have since taken these steps (as root)
> 
> $ su - postgres -c "dropdb engine"
> $ su - postgres -c "psql -c \"create user engine password '<PASSWORD>'\""
> $ su - postgres -c "psql -c \"create database engine owner engine
> template template0 encoding 'UTF8' lc_collate 'en_US.UTF-8' lc_ctype
> 'en_US.UTF-8'\""
> $ engine-backup --mode=restore --scope=all
> --file=engine-20140211-1457.tar.bz2 --log=engine-backup.log
> --change-db-credentials --db-host=localhost --db-port=5432
> --db-user=engine --db-name=engine --db-password=<PASSWORD>
> Restoring...
> Rewriting /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/10-setup-database.conf
> Note: you might need to manually fix:
> - iptables/firewalld configuration
> - autostart of ovirt-engine service
> You can now start the engine service and then restart httpd
> Done.
> 
> $ engine-setup
> 
> I believe I initially created the database incorrectly (ran 'createdb
> engine' as postgres user).  I was getting errors during engine-setup
> that indicated the database could not be accessed.
> 
> After the steps above, everything looks good.

Good job. Thanks for the report!
-- 
Didi