----- Original Message ----- > From: "Juan Pablo Lorier" <jplor...@gmail.com> > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <d...@redhat.com> > Cc: "users" <users@ovirt.org> > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:10:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] engine-backup --restore > > Well, too soon to say boodbye. > Thought I used --change-db-credentials in the restore, the engine seems > to be unable to connect to the database. I assume that it didn't get the > new password, so, is there a way to tell the engine about the new password? > Regards,
/etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf/10-setup-database.conf or similar. Look for ENGINE_DB_* variables. > > On 12/02/14 16:03, Yedidyah Bar David wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Juan Pablo Lorier" <jplor...@gmail.com> > >> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <d...@redhat.com> > >> Cc: "Sahina Bose" <sab...@redhat.com>, "users" <users@ovirt.org> > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 7:55:35 PM > >> Subject: Re: [Users] Problems accesing the database > >> > >> Hi Yedidyah, > >> > >> But If I run engine-setup and then engine-backup restore shuldn't it > >> import the data to the existing db created by engine-setup? > >> That's shown everywhere so I thought it's a valid way to migrate > > No. > > > > There is a specific case in which this works automatically: > > All on the same host: > > 1. engine-setup > > 2. engine-backup --mode=backup > > (perhaps do other stuff here) > > 3. engine-cleanup > > 4. engine-backup --mode=restore > > > > Why does this work? Because 'engine-cleanup', since 3.3, does not drop > > the database nor user inside postgres. So when restore tries to access > > this database using this user and password it succeeds. > > > > In general, if you do the restore on another machine, and do there > > 'engine-setup; engine-cleanup' as a quick-postgres-provisioning-tool, > > you end up almost ready, but not quite - because the password is random, > > and therefore different between the installations. In principle you could > > have provided just the password to restore, but we decided that if you > > need to change the credentials, you should pass all of them (except for > > defaults). > > > > Hope this clarifies, > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users