Bug 1002401

Summary: [RFE] backup/restore: support restoring to different database location
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl>
Component: ovirt-engine-setupAssignee: Yedidyah Bar David <didi>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: sefi litmanovich <slitmano>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: unspecifiedCC: acathrow, bazulay, didi, eedri, iheim, oschreib, Rhev-m-bugs, yeylon
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: FutureFeature, Improvement
Target Release: 3.3.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard: integration
Fixed In Version: is26 Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
The backup and restore procedure can now be used to move the database from one location to another, for example from local to remote.
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Last Closed: 2014-01-21 17:36:22 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1032811, 1044030    

Description Alon Bar-Lev 2013-08-29 06:23:37 UTC
This came up in presentation to GSS and it makes sense.

1. When restoring a machine, it does not mean that the database location is the same.

2. The backup/restore procedure can be used in order to move the database from one location (example: local) to another location (example: remote).

These two can be easily added to current implementation.

Comment 1 Yedidyah Bar David 2013-10-17 09:56:05 UTC
Comments below copied from gerrit:

Initial draft.
Includes many other fixes to be able to actually use it.
Verified only on fedora 19:
engine-setup (chose to have it provision a local db, the default)
engine-backup --mode=backup --file=oeb4-local-db --log=oeb4.log
engine-cleanup
manually created a db in another host and opened access to it
Created a file "p1" with the remote's password engine-backup --mode=restore --file=oeb4-local-db --log=oeb4-restore1.log --db-host=didi-lap --db-pass=p1
Had to manually add ovirt services to firewalld's public zone and reload it
engine seems to work
engine-cleanup also works well, apart from:
[WARNING] Preserving '/etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/10-setup-database.conf' as changed since installation

Note: Passing --db-secured and/or --db-sec-validation does not change ENGINE_DB_URL, and it probably should. Not tested. It might be better to remove or disable these options for now.

Comment 2 Yedidyah Bar David 2013-10-23 07:34:47 UTC
*** Bug 1021448 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 sefi litmanovich 2013-11-06 13:24:46 UTC
Verified on RHEVM 3.3 IS21.

steps:
1.engine-setup
2.engine-backup --mode=backup --scope=db --file=/tmp/oeb4-local-db --log=/tmp/oeb4.log
3. created DB on remote host as per instructions on engine-backup --help
4. service ovirt-engine stop
5. engine-backup --mode=restore --scope=db --change-db-credentials --file=/tmp/oeb4-local-db --log=/tmp/oeb4-restore1.log --db-host=monique-vds05.tlv.redhat.com --db-port=5432 --db-user=engine --db-name=engine --db-password=engine
6. service ovirt-engine start; service httpd restart.
7. engine works fine, elements added to engine (Datacenter, cluster...) appear on remote database.

Comment 4 Yedidyah Bar David 2013-11-27 13:42:49 UTC
Found a bug : without http://gerrit.ovirt.org/21784 , engine-backup --mode=restore and without --change-db-credentials will empty 10-setup-database.conf and so will prevent the engine from starting.

Comment 5 Charlie 2013-11-28 00:24:48 UTC
This bug is currently attached to errata RHEA-2013:15231. If this change is not to be documented in the text for this errata please either remove it from the errata, set the requires_doc_text flag to minus (-), or leave a "Doc Text" value of "--no tech note required" if you do not have permission to alter the flag.

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Comment 6 sefi litmanovich 2013-12-09 13:38:21 UTC
Verified on RHEVM 3.3 IS26.

reproduce steps:
1. engine-setup
2. create DC, Cluster, add hosts etc..
3. engine-backup --mode=backup --scope=all --file=/tmp/oeb4-local-db --log=/tmp/oeb4.log
4. engine-cleanup
5. drop database
6. create new database with same credentials as the previous one which was backed up
7. engine-backup --mode=resore --scope=all --file=/tmp/oeb4-local-db --log=/tmp/oeb4.log

result= engine works fine with all the elements installed at stage (2) in-tact.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-21 17:36:22 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0038.html