[Users] Reimporting storage domains after reinstalling ovirt

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/10/2014 12:30 AM, Boudewijn Ector wrote:
>
>>>
>>> How should I go on recovering those VMs?
>>
>> change the domain into an export domain, attach it, and import the
>> VMs from it (currently, you can only import an export domain) i
>> think this thread has the relevant info:
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/users@ovirt.org/msg04257.html
>>
> Okay thank you very much for pointing that out. I now realise the
> difference between the regular and export shares.
>
>
> I just changed the metadata file (at
> /raid/ovirt-old/data/1979444d-b79a-494c-8c1a-bcc132e31a04/dom_md0) from:
>
> [root at leiden dom_md]# cat metadata.backup
> CLASS=Data
> DESCRIPTION=leiden-data
> IOOPTIMEOUTSEC=10
> LEASERETRIES=3
> LEASETIMESEC=60
> LOCKPOLICY=
> LOCKRENEWALINTERVALSEC=5
> MASTER_VERSION=613
> POOL_DESCRIPTION=Default
> POOL_DOMAINS=dafe25c2-1ce7-4979-9d8d-a35688da207a:Active,1979444d-b79a-494c-8c1a-bcc132e31a04:Active,d2676b04-e2ff-420f-8f29-36dafc2df47b:Active
> POOL_SPM_ID=1
> POOL_SPM_LVER=0
> POOL_UUID=5849b030-626e-47cb-ad90-3ce782d831b3
> REMOTE_PATH=192.168.1.44:/raid/ovirt/data
> ROLE=Master
> SDUUID=1979444d-b79a-494c-8c1a-bcc132e31a04
> TYPE=NFS
> VERSION=3
> _SHA_CKSUM=cab6c41e19812714ba79c48fc98b7037032725e4
>
> into:
>
> CLASS=Backup
> DESCRIPTION=export-storage
> IOOPTIMEOUTSEC=10
> LEASERETRIES=3
> LEASETIMESEC=60
> LOCKPOLICY=
> LOCKRENEWALINTERVALSEC=5
> MASTER_VERSION=613
> POOL_DESCRIPTION=Default
> POOL_DOMAINS=
> POOL_SPM_ID=1
> POOL_SPM_LVER=0
> POOL_UUID=
> REMOTE_PATH=nfsserver:/raid/ovirt-old/data
> ROLE=Regular
> SDUUID=1979444d-b79a-494c-8c1a-bcc132e31a04
> TYPE=NFS
> VERSION=3
>
>
>
> (there's another storage doman which has to be converted too but
> that's not that relevant imo).
>
> Now I log in onto the webinterface, select storage domain -> import
> domain :
>
> Domain function set to export/NFS
> export path:
> 192.168.1.44:/raid/ovirt-old/data/
>
> (192.168.1.44 is the server's IP)
>
>
> Now this error pops up:
>
> Error while executing action: Cannot add Storage. Storage format V3 is
> not supported on the selected host version.
>
> I just had a look for this one and found this bug (in which you
> replied... such a small world :)  ) :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059604
> But there's no obvious solution over there.

the bug is about a host with a cluster not associated with a DC. is your 
cluster associated with a DC?

>
> Despite this the domains are available in the storage domain list but
> they're unattached so no use to me.
>
> Am I still missing something?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Boudewijn
>