Thanks Alon, you were right.
On 12/02/14 17:13, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > ----- 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 >>
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