Hi Andres, When I was restoring MAAS onto a new node, I was having issues with region-rack controller sync. Replacing /var/lib/maas, excluding 'boot-resources', with the backed up one, everything started working like a charm.
-- Junaid On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Andres Rodriguez < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Junaid, > > I just wanted to make a clarification. You don't really *need* to backup > /var/lib/maas/* for most cases. The Region Controller will automatically > re-generate everything (all config files, re-import images, etc). So: > > 1. If you have both MAAS Region and Rack on the same machine, there's > definitely no need to backup /var/lib/maas/* > 2. If you have additional stand alone rack controllers, you need to make > sure the secret is updated to the one re-generated in (1) in order for the > rack controller to re-connect to the new region controller. > > Hope this helps! > > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Junaid Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > However, you can omit /var/lib/maas/boot-resources. This directory >> contains the boot-images, on restore MAAS will automatically reimport them. >> +1. Thanks Lee for pointing it out. >> >> On Feb 2, 2017 01:10, "Lee Trager" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Junaid, >> >> You are correct that /var/lib/maas should also be backed up as well. >> However, you can omit /var/lib/maas/boot-resources. This directory contains >> the boot-images, on restore MAAS will automatically reimport them. >> >> Lee >> >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Junaid Ali <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We should also consider /var/lib/maas/. I was able to completely restore >>> maas (both region and rack controller) with >>> 1. MAAS DB >>> 2. /etc/maas >>> 3. /var/lib/maas >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Junaid >>> >>> On Feb 2, 2017 00:18, "Mark Shuttleworth" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I think everything you care about is in the postgres database and >>>> /etc/maas/ >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> On 01/02/17 17:48, Sandor Zeestraten wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Where can I find procedures for backing up and restoring a region >>>> controller? >>>> If there isn't any, what would be the current best approach to do so? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sandor Zeestraten >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Maas-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm >>>> an/listinfo/maas-devel >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> Maas-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm >>> an/listinfo/maas-devel >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Maas-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm >> an/listinfo/maas-devel >> >> > > > -- > Andres Rodriguez > Engineering Manager, MAAS > Canonical USA, Inc. >
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