[ovirt-users] How to manually restore backup

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Hanson <hanson at andrewswireless.net> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Just wondering what the proper way to restore a backup to a hosted-engine?
>
> I've tried doing the deploy, then cleanup, and backup --mode=restore, but
> then engine-setup needs internet access. (which it doesn't have)

You can try 'engine-setup --offline'.

>
> Is there a way to restore the backup over the current data of a currently
> deployed new host?

No, but you can try running 'engine-cleanup'.

Also, engine-backup only checks for the databases, not files. So you can try:

service postgresql stop
rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/data
then restore again.

Best,

>
> ie like a --mode=restore --option=force ?
>
> or is there another way to restore?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hanson
>
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