[ovirt-users] help, manager hard drive died (3.3.4)

[Itamar Heim]

On 05/23/2014 01:28 PM, David Smith wrote:
> Hey Bob,
>
> Yea my method worked. I was able to copy the non-master data center VM
> data into the images folder on the master data center (now "export"
> domain) and import everything.
>
> This would have been tragic if there wasn't the hard disk space, would
> have required lots of big data shuffling.  I've split the data center
> model so now we have two clusters with two masters, and will avoid using
> a non-master data center entirely due to this issue.
>
> The good news is it looks like we didn't lose any data.

also worth mentioning the upcoming 3.5 feature which will allow you to 
import a data domain (master or not) to the engine, which is most useful 
for this case, and reduces the need for the 'convert to export, then 
import' games.