Restore of Satellite 6.3 server isn't working

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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.

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