Restore of Satellite 6.3 server isn't working
Section 7.2 of the Satellite Server 6.3 Administration Guide needs to be more thoroughly tested, I think. I spun up a new copy of the Satellite 6.3 server we have in a new Amazon VPC, as our old VPC (default) had IP overlaps with our on-premises network. So far, my process has been:
- Take a backup of the old satellite 6.3 server
- Copy the backup to S3
- Spin up a new satellite server with our Ansible playbook
- Copy the backup from S3
- Restore using satellite-restore
The failure, while restoring, is:
Failed 'runuser - postgres -c 'psql -f ./pg_globals.dump postgres 2>/dev/null'' with exit code 1
Running 'runuser -postgres -c pwd' returns '/var/lib/pgsql'. The solution is to copy *.dump to /var/lib/pgsql before running satellite-restore.
Responses
Hello Greg
Thank you for reporting that.
I have raised this bug: Bug 1564435 - Postgres fail while restoring. Feel free to follow, edit, comment, etc.
Hello
Sorry for the delay.
Performing a restore on another Satellite Server is not a currently supported procedure. We will update the docs to make that clearer as described in comment 564435#c9.
See that comment for other methods too.
Thank you
EDIT: My mistake, restoring onto a new install of Satellite is the supported procedure. The docs as its written now implies it but we can make state it clearly.
Hello
I raised: Bug 1576748 - [RFE] Support restore onto a new Satellite Server.
For those that need this feature, raise a support case and cite that bug.
Thank you
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