[ovirt-users] [BACKUPS] oVirt 3.6 Backups

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Julian De Marchi
<julian at jdcomputers.com.au> wrote:
> heya--
>
> Trying to get oVirt backups working after seeing the notifications in my
> admin interface that no backups have occurred.
>
> I am having a few dramas running it. First if I just run engine-backup
> mode=backup it fails as it does not have a default option for a log file. So
> I musy run engine-backup --mode=backup --log=/var/log/ovirt-backup
>
> Next once it runs it fails to notify the engine. Here is the output from the
> log file:
>
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: OUTPUT: Notifying engine
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: pg_cmd running: psql -w -U engine -h localhost -p
> 5432  engine -t -c SELECT LogEngineBackupEvent('files', now(), -1, 'Failed',
> '$HOSTNAME', '/tmp/test');
> psql: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: FATAL: Failed notifying engine
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: OUTPUT: Notifying engine
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: pg_cmd running: psql -w -U engine -h localhost -p
> 5432  engine -t -c SELECT LogEngineBackupEvent('files', now(), -1, 'Failed
> notifying engine', '$HOSTNAME', '/tmp/test');
> psql: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: FATAL: Failed notifying engine
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: OUTPUT: Notifying engine
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: pg_cmd running: psql -w -U engine -h localhost -p
> 5432  engine -t -c SELECT LogEngineBackupEvent('files', now(), -1, 'Failed
> notifying engine', '$HOSTNAME', '/tmp/test');
> psql: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: FATAL: Failed notifying engine
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: OUTPUT: Notifying engine
> 2015-11-16 09:34:57 28124: pg_cmd running: psql -w -U engine -h localhost -p
> 5432  engine -t -c SELECT LogEngineBackupEvent('files', now(), -1, 'Failed
> notifying engine', '$HOSTNAME', '/tmp/test');
> psql: fe_sendauth: no password supplied

It's most probably [1]. If it's something else, please provide full command
line and log. Thanks!

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240923

Best,
-- 
Didi