Why hosted engine upgrade to 4.0 is failing with error "HE_APPLIANCE_ENGINE_RESTORE_FAIL"

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Issue

  • Hosted engine upgrade to 4.0 from 3.6 using hosted-engine --upgrade-appliance is failing with below error
Running engine-setup on the appliance
FATAL: /tmp/engine_backup.tar.gz does not exist
HE_APPLIANCE_ENGINE_RESTORE_FAIL
Engine backup restore failed on the appliance

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.0

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