[ovirt-users] Restoring backed up VM

[Maor Lipchuk]

Elad, the the VM from configuration checks the existence of the VM id.
Probably RHEL_65_CL1_CLONE2 has the same id as the VM which is being imported.

Regards,
Maor


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elad Ben Aharon" <ebenahar at redhat.com>
> To: "santosh" <sbahir at commvault.com>, "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 9:08:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Restoring backed up VM
> 
> If you still have the backed up VM in your system, the create from
> configuration operation should be blocked as you've encountered.
> Allon, what does the create VM from configuration checks? The existence of
> the VM name or the existence of its ID?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "santosh" <sbahir at commvault.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, 6 October, 2014 4:28:06 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Restoring backed up VM
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to backup and restore the VM using the flow suggester at
> Features/Backup-Restore API Integration
> 
> When I tried to restore the VM using the following steps,
> 
> 
> Full Virtual Machine Restoration
> 
> 
>     1. Create disks for restore
>     2. Attach the disks for restore to the virtual appliance (Restore the
>     data to it)
>     3. Detach the disks from the virtual appliance.
>     4. Create a vm using the configuration that was saved as part of the
>     backup flow - (added capabillity to oVirt as part of the Backup API)
>     5. Attach the restored disks to the created vm.
> 
> I encountered following error at step 4.
> 
> 
> 
> <fault>
> <reason>Operation Failed</reason>
> <detail>[Import VM failed - VM Id already exist in the system . Please remove
> the VM (RHEL_65_CL1_CLONE2) from the system first]</detail>
> </fault>
> 
> I have not deleted/removed the backed up VM from the system.
> 
> Is it expected behaviour?
> Should it not overwrite the existing VM or Create new VM with different VM
> Id, if the backup up VM exists?
> 
> 
> Thanks, Santosh
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