Troubleshooting restore
When a restore is performed, do not restart the rancher-system-agent on elemental nodes as it can stale and end with the following error:
panic: error while connecting to Kubernetes cluster: the server has asked for the client to provide credentials
If you face this problem, please follow the procedure below.
Before you initiate a restore, you need to copy /var/lib/rancher/agent/rancher2_connection_info.json from the elemental node to a place where you have access with Rancher UI.
Once the file is copied, download the rancher-agent-token-update.sh script from the Elemental repository:
wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancher/elemental/main/scripts/rancher-agent-token-update && chmod +x rancher-agent-token-update
Execute the script without any additional options:
./rancher-agent-token-update
After the restore successfully completed, copy rancher2_connection_info.json back to the elemental node to the path
/var/lib/rancher/agent/rancher2_connection_info.json. Finally, restart the rancher-system-agent service:
systemctl restart rancher-system-agent