Problem:
Foreman-maintain fails during offline backup. During the “Generate metadata” step, Foreman throws an error stating an undefined method.
Expected outcome:
Create a full backup of my foreman server with metadata included.
Foreman and Proxy versions:
3.2.1 & 3.2.0
Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
foreman_default_hostgroup - 6.0.0
foreman_memcache - 0.1.1
foreman_puppet - 3.0.7
Distribution and version:
Other relevant data:
Here’s the output from Foreman-maintain…
foreman-maintain backup offline /mnt/tmp
Starting backup: 2023-03-15 11:29:13 -0700
Running preparation steps required to run the next scenarios
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Make sure Foreman DB is up:
/ Checking connection to the Foreman DB [OK]
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Running Backup
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Confirm turning off services is allowed:
WARNING: This script will stop your services.
Do you want to proceed?, [y(yes), q(quit)] y
[OK]
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Prepare backup Directory:
Creating backup folder /mnt/tmp/foreman-backup-2023-03-15-11-29-13 [OK]
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Check if the directory exists and is writable: [OK]
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Generate metadata:
- Collecting proxy configuration [FAIL]
undefined method `[]' for false:FalseClass
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Scenario [Backup] failed.
The following steps ended up in failing state:
[backup-metadata]
Resolve the failed steps and rerun the command.
In case the failures are false positives, use
--whitelist="backup-metadata"
Running Failed backup cleanup
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Start applicable services:
Starting the following service(s):
postgresql (foreman), httpd, puppetserver, foreman-proxy
\ starting postgresql (foreman)
postgresql (foreman) is remote and is UP.
\ All services started [OK]
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Remove maintenance mode table/chain from nftables/iptables: [OK]
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Clean up backup directory: [OK]
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Done with backup: 2023-03-15 11:29:47 -0700
Backup didn't finish. Incomplete backup was removed.