Restoring Red Hat Satellite Server from existing backup fails with permission error

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x

Issue

• Restoring backup of Red Hat Satellite server fails with below error:

    # satellite-maintain restore /var/backup_directory
    Restore candlepin postgresql dump from backup: 
    \ Restoring candlepin dump                                            [FAIL]    
    Failed executing runuser - postgres -c 'pg_restore -C -d postgres /var/satellite-backup-path/candlepin.dump', exit status 1:
    pg_restore: '[archiver]' could not open input file "/var/satellite-backup-path/candlepin.dump": Permission denied
  
    Scenario [Restore backup] failed.
  
    The following steps ended up in failing state:
  
     [restore-candlepin-dump]
  
    Resolve the failed steps and rerun
    the command. In case the failures are false positives,
    use --whitelist="restore-candlepin-dump"
  

Resolution

• Assign correct ownership and permission to backup directory path and files following below command:

    # chown root:postgres /var/satellite-backup-path/
    # chmod 770 /var/satellite-backup-path/
    # chown root:root /var/satellite-backup-path/candlepin.dump
    # chmod 644 /var/satellite-backup-path/candlepin.dump
    # chown root:root /var/satellite-backup-path/foreman.dump
    # chmod 644 /var/satellite-backup-path/foreman.dump
    # chown postgres:postgres /var/satellite-backup-path/pg_globals.dump
    # restorecon -Rv /var/satellite-backup-path
  

• After assigning correct permission , re-run restore command on your Red Hat Satellite server.

Root Cause

• Ownership and permission of the backup files were manually modified.

Diagnostic Steps

• Verify ownership and permission of the file for backup directory path using below command.

    # ls -alZd /var/satellite-backup-path/
    # ls -alZ /var/satellite-backup-path/
  

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