Look at the post about converting VMs from KVM to oVirt, I think it will help you.
Alex 2012/10/15 Neil <[email protected]> > I'm able to access the LUNS directly and I can access the guest LV > filesystems, so I'm currently dumping the guest LV's to raw disk > images, does anyone know how to import these again into ovirt? > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Eli Mesika <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >>> From: "Neil" <[email protected]> > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 9:27:24 AM > >>> Subject: [Users] Fwd: database issue after power failure > >>> > >>> I've found out now that another technician accidentally deleted my > >>> psql engine db because he tried to install bacula on the same server. > >>> I have no backup of the DB because I was still in the process of > >>> setting them up and wasn't aware he was going to be installing onto > >>> this server. > >>> > >>> I currently have 6 guests that are in a shutdown state because of a > >>> power failure over the weekend. It's using FC storage, only the db > >>> seems to be missing. > >>> > >>> Is there anything I can do to recover from this disaster? > >> > >> Hi > >> Is this a new installation or one that was upgraded? > >> If it is an upgrade IIRC we are backing up the database prior to the > upgrade so maybe it is possible to search for this backup and getting an > older version of your DB. > >> > >> If the DB is deleted and you have no backups you will probably have to > reinstall. > >> I recommend to backup your DB on a daily basis using our backup.sh > script , you can use a simple cron job for that. > >> > >> Eli > >> > >> > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >>> > >>> Regards. > >>> > >>> Neil. > >>> > >>> > >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >>> From: Neil <[email protected]> > >>> Date: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:10 AM > >>> Subject: database issue after power failure > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> > >>> > >>> Hi guys, > >>> > >>> I've got what looks like a huge issue after a power failure. > >>> > >>> In my server.log I'm seeing "Caused by: > >>> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: database "engine" does not > >>> exist" in my server.log and in my engine.log I'm seeing the following > >>> which also looks very bad. > >>> > >>> "2012-10-15 09:08:41,357 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.Backend] > >>> (MSC service thread 1-4) Error in getting DB connection. The database > >>> is inaccessible. Original exception is: > >>> DataAccessResourceFailureException: Error retreiving database > >>> metadata; nested exception is > >>> org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException: Could not > >>> get Connection for extracting meta data; nested exception is > >>> org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not > >>> get JDBC Connection; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: > >>> javax.resource.ResourceException: IJ000453: Unable to get managed > >>> connection for java:/ENGINEDataSource" > >>> > >>> Please could someone assist if possible, I'm currently logged in on > >>> #ovirt as well. > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >>> > >>> Regards. > >>> > >>> Neil Wilson. > > > > Hi Eli, > > > > Thanks for coming back to me. > > > > Unfortunately it wasn't an upgrade or installation, just raw db files > > were removed(rm -f /var/lib/pgsql/*) mid last week, and then there was > > power failure over the weekend and everything shut down and then > > refused to start. > > > > I've tried running extundelete but it says the "space has been > > re-allocated" for the files under /var/lib/pgsql > > > > The images should in theory still be fine because they are stored on a > > FC SAN, but I now need to somehow access the .ovf files, back them up, > > re-install the ovirt-engine from scratch re-initialise the storage and > > then import the .ovf files. > > > > Anyone know how to access the .ovf files without having an engine? I > > can access the LUNS directly, but can't mount them because of the > > filesystem type being unknown. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Regards. > > > > Neil. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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