On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:00 AM Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > AFAIK https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1/ is still there, maybe you > could find some issues with other repos. > > If you want to take a shortcut, > https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1/rpm/el7/noarch/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.1-20180124.1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm > contains latest 4.1 based engine appliance. > You can extract the OVA file from there and use it to boot a temporary VM > with virt-install and then upgrade the engine there to 4.2 in order to take a > new 4.2 based backup that your can restore where you prefer with up to date > rpms. > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:49 AM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm looking for a hand in recovering my ovirt cluster from a hardware >> failure. The hard drive on my cluster controller failed, and I would like to >> recover from backup. >> >> The problem is, the cluster was 4.1, which is less than a year old, but was >> nevertheless removed from the active repositories back in May. 4.2 will not >> recover from 4.1 backups.
If you are brave, you can also "cheat" - patch engine-backup to allow recovering 4.1. That's a trivial patch, and the main problem with it is that no-one tested it, and I do expect it might introduce subtle issues. But considering the alternatives, it might be a reasonable approach. If you do, try restoring first on an _isolated_ VM somewhere, try to see how the engine behaves after restore (it will not work very well, because it will not manage to access its hosts - if you indeed isolated it well enough), and if it looks ok, try for real. See also e.g.: https://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2017-March/080346.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1425788 That said, not sure why 4.1 does not work for you. I think it should still work, although I didn't try by myself recently. Good luck and best regards, >> >> The storage domains are all intact (I think), and the hosts are still >> running (unmanaged). I've tried to manually restore the engine from backups, >> but either the upgrade is reinitializing or I am missing something. >> >> Any ideas? >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ >> oVirt Code of Conduct: >> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >> List Archives: >> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HRIUSVMGGCIG5M5AWBWCP6VH2OVUHHIG/ > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3OIB2WQSMHVM52LA7U2DC4LYG4PY5WZQ/ -- Didi _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/W5LILTJX464PBVHFSOXJVKU2BB5X555L/
