If QOS is in use, a file produced by "sacctmgr dump" can't be loaded into a fresh database, since sacctmgr doesn't dump the actual qos levels, but does reference them. sacctmgr load file=... cluster=... .... sacctmgr: error: You gave a bad qos '...'. Valid QOS's are normal
just to be clear, the file was generated by doing something like "sacctmgr dump file=... cluster=..."