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Master server processes fail to come up on the new Linux/CentOS server after migration

 

Problem description

The master server processes fail to come up after migrating the on-premise master server, as a part of activities such as hardware refresh or OS upgrade.  

Cause

In Unix-based OS,  All files and folders are associated with an owner and a group.  A group can contain multiple users. All the users of the same group have the same access permission for a file.

This issue is observed if for below inSync folders the owner and group changes to ‘root’  instead of ‘insyncserver’ after copying to the new server.

  1. /etc/inSyncCloud
  2. /opt/Druva
  3. /var/log/inSyncCloud
  4. Storage Data, DB and DBLogs folders.

You can use the command ‘ls -al’ to check the owner and group of the folder and files as below.


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Traceback

The below errors are found in the OS logs at /var/log/mesages: 

Jul 18 11:34:55 localhost inSyncConfigServer: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/inSyncCloud/inSyncServer/ca-certificates.crt'
Jul 18 11:34:55 localhost inSyncConfigServer: Exception OSError: (1, 'Operation not permitted') in <bound method Bynamo.__del__ of <inSyncLib.inSyncUtil.Bynamo object at 0x7fe791c61e50>> ignored
Jul 18 11:34:55 localhost systemd: inSyncConfigServer.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 18 11:34:57 localhost systemd: Failed to start Druva inSync Master Component (ConfigServer).
Jul 18 11:34:57 localhost systemd: Unit inSyncConfigServer.service entered failed state.
Jul 18 11:34:57 localhost systemd: inSyncConfigServer.service failed.
 
Jul 18 12:27:04 localhost inSyncConfigServer: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/inSyncCloud/AuthDB.log'

Resolution

Ensure the owner and group for all inSync folders are set to 'insyncserver'.

You can change the owner with:

> chown -R <groupname>:<username>  <foldername>

For a new installation, the owner and group are set to insyncserver by default.

Verification

After changing the owner verify the correct group and owner as below.

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To confirm if all processes have come up successfully:

  1. Verify inSync related processes with:

    > ps -ef | grep -i insync
  2. Verify  /var/log/messages:

    Jul 19 10:05:40 druva echo: Druva MasterAll service - starting all master components
    Jul 19 10:05:40 druva systemd: Started Druva inSync MasterAll service (this service starts all Druva inSync Master components).
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