On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:20 AM <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks for your answer.
>
> > Yes, now you can do it via backup and restore:
> > take a backup of the engine with engine-backup and restore it on a new
> > hosted-engine VM on a new storage domain with:
> > hosted-engine --deploy --restore-from-file=mybackup.tar.gz
>
> That is great news. Just to clear things up completely:
>
> - This backup command is sufficient ? No further switches ?
>   "engine-backup --mode=backup --file=[EngineBackupFile] --log=[LogFILE]"
>

Yes, right.


>
> - Do I need to place the node to which I want to deploy engine into
> maintenance
>   before doing the backup? This is referred in the stated documentation as:
>
>   "If a hosted-engine host is carrying a virtual load at the time of
> backup [...]
>    then a host [...] cannot be used to deploy a restored self-hosted
> engine."
>
>    This is still true? If yes: all other precautions apply from that
> documentation?
>

It's a good idea but it's not strictly required.



> - before creating the new engine on the new storage, the old engine need
> to be
>   un-deployed on all engine-HA hosts. I am unable to find information
> about this
>   issue. Just un-deploy via web ui?
>

No need for that; but you will required to redeploy them from the new
engine to update their configuration.


>
> - I want to deploy on a gluster volume that has been automatically created
> by the
>   Node setup. The file /etc/gluster/glusterd.vol does not carry
>   "option rpc-auth-allow-insecure on" which is mentioned in the
> documentation.
>   Do I need to follow the instructions for gluster, or are settings
> already sufficiently
>   set by the automatic gluster deployment done by oVirt Node setup? I
> already
>   have some VM images running on that gluster storage anyway.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> - Andreas
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