Saving secondary storage from a dead cloud

[Dave Cundiff <sy...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I've got a dead cloud that I wanted to save my secondary storage from. The
templates appear to just be qcows and the template.properties file tells
what each is.

My question is do I need to reupload these to my new 4.0 cloud manually? Or
will it see the existing files, read the template.properties and import
them?

Thanks!

-- 
Dave Cundiff
System Administrator
A2Hosting, Inc
http://www.a2hosting.com

RE: Saving secondary storage from a dead cloud

[Edison Su <Ed...@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Cundiff [mailto:syshackmin@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:58 AM
> To: cloudstack-users
> Subject: Saving secondary storage from a dead cloud
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a dead cloud that I wanted to save my secondary storage from. The
> templates appear to just be qcows and the template.properties file tells
> what each is.
> 
> My question is do I need to reupload these to my new 4.0 cloud manually? Or
> will it see the existing files, read the template.properties and import them?
Right now, you have to re-register templates into your new 4.0 cloud setup, which means need to download the whole templates into secondary storage again.

template.properties doesn't contain all the meta data of a template, such as, download url, which account the template belongs to, public/private template etc. That's why you need to download it again.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Dave Cundiff
> System Administrator
> A2Hosting, Inc
> http://www.a2hosting.com