OLVM: oVirt engine restoration failed with FATAL: Can't connect to database 'engine' (Doc ID 2910077.1)

Last updated on JULY 27, 2023

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Symptoms

The engine restore fails with the following error:

# engine-backup --mode=restore --file=/root/ovirt-engine-backup --log=/root/ovirt-engine-backup_xx.log --restore-permissions
Start of engine-backup with mode 'restore'
scope: all
archive file: /root/ovirt-engine-backup_xx
log file: /root/ovirt-engine-backup_xx.log
Preparing to restore:
- Unpacking file '/root/ovirt-engine-backup_xx'
Restoring:
- Files
FATAL: Can't connect to database 'engine'. Please see '/usr/bin/engine-backup --help'. 

Changes

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Cause

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