Problem Statement

Red Hat Satellite 6.16 does not allow mixing incremental online with full offline Satellite backups. When an offline full Satellite backup, then an incremental online Satellite backup  is taken, the incremental online backup fails with the following error:

Running Backup================================================================================
Check if the incremental backup has the right type:                   [FAIL]
The existing backup is an offline backup, but an online backup was requested.
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Scenario [Backup] failed. The following steps ended up in failing state:

   [backup-incremental-parent-type] 

Resolve the failed steps and rerun the command. 

User Experience & Workflow

On  a Satellite 6.16 server, user does the following:

1. Take full offline Satellite backup using the command: 

   # satellite-maintain backup offline -y -p --features all /tmp/satbak/full 

1. Take incremental online Satellite backup using the command: 

   # satellite-maintain backup online -y -p --features all --incremental /tmp/satbak/full /tmp/satbak/inc 

The incremental online Satellite backup fails as described above in the problem statement.

Requirements

As it used to be the case with earlier releases of Red Hat Satellite, incremental online backup should be possible after a full offline backup.

Business Impact

Offline backups require a downtime of Satellite services.