It looks like the issue was related to permissions on the file system that held the backup directories. We relocated them and ensured that they were owned by the ML server’s user and now I’m able to restore into ML 8 (or at least the restore has started). Was able to restore into ML 4, which of course should work no problem.
Cheers, E. -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com On 7/27/17, 1:41 PM, "general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com on behalf of Eliot Kimber" <general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com on behalf of ekim...@contrext.com> wrote: I have a backup from an ML 4.2 database that I’m trying to restore to an ML 8 server. The database configurations are (or should be) the same between both servers and both are running on Linux servers. If I have the same set of forests defined on the ML 8 server as in the backup then when I go to the restore screen it lists all the forests in the backup but all their check boxes are unchecked and greyed out. If I delete some of the forests from the ML 8 server then those forests are selected and not greyed out. But… When I proceed with the restore I consistently get failures like this: Operation failed with error message: XDMP-NOFOREST: xdmp:database-restore((xs:unsignedLong("5211046837612715608"), xs:unsignedLong("5138674030818805002")), "/marklogic/backup/rsuite/20170726-1", (), fn:false(), (), fn:false(), ()) -- No forest with identifier 5211046837612715608. Check server logs. I’m not seeing any other errors in the ErrorLog.txt log I didn’t see anything in the ML 8 backup and restore docs that suggested what the issue might be. The 5211046837612715608 value comes from databases.xml and I see a mapping for this ID in the assignments.xml file: <assignment> <forest-name>rsuite02</forest-name> <enabled>true</enabled> <host>14194071972761628339</host> <data-directory>/somedir/MarkLogic</data-directory> <updates-allowed>all</updates-allowed> <failover-enable>false</failover-enable> <failover-hosts/> <forest-id>5211046837612715608</forest-id> <forest-backups/> <forest-replicas/> </assignment> And there is a directory Forests/rsuite02 in the backup. Any idea what would be causing this failure? Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
