[ovirt-users] backup.sh fails

[Sven Kieske]

Am 14.07.2014 16:55, schrieb Niklas Fondberg:
> Hi all,
> I might be of a tangent but I tried to follow the steps in
> http://www.ovirt.org/User_talk:Stkeimond/Backing_Up_And_Restoring_OVirt
> for a backup.
> I get an error because of the postgres user password that I never set in
> the installation of oVirt (as far as I know.)
> Does anyone know of another way to backup or is this a bug/fault_by_me?
> The command line and error is:
> 
> [root at dl380 dbscripts]# ./backup.sh -u postgres -l /mnt/msa60/backups/
> Backup of database engine to
> /mnt/msa60/backups//engine_Mon_Jul_14_16:50:45_CEST_2014.sql started...
> pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "engine" failed: FATAL:
> Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
> pg_dump: *** aborted because of error
> Backup of database engine failed.

I'm pretty sure this procedure is obsolete.
You should use the provisioned engine-backup tool
to do backups and restore the ovirt-engine:

http://www.ovirt.org/Ovirt-engine-backup

HTH


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