Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHBA-2018:3293 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

rear bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for rear is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Relax-and-Recover is a recovery and system migration utility. The utility produces a bootable image and restores from backup using this image. It allows to restore to different hardware and can therefore be also used as a migration utility.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of rear are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1418459 - rear is poorly documented
  • BZ - 1450667 - ReaR recovery fails when the OS contains a Thin Pool/Volume
  • BZ - 1464353 - rear recovery ISO not working with secure boot
  • BZ - 1484051 - rear won't backup network config
  • BZ - 1534646 - Cannot restore TSM backups
  • BZ - 1536023 - Cannot restore disk layout of software raid devices when some device is missing
  • BZ - 1539063 - Cannot restore backup of system disk when using multipath+software raid
  • BZ - 1571266 - PPC64: cannot create DVD images including backup and cannot split DVD images

CVEs

(none)

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: ebbe3c763a8fd671205e362774373f806e208b10000b8c42180c9c8f298521b9
x86_64
rear-2.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 570c31ec51c56e4ab692c21b8e2acdbc0ea0b1e919b3bab524ae3d17440eb42d
rear-debuginfo-2.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 102fe1ed7ac3d91c3c652b354aae39cc1b776922b3b770abe619c70126c8a4ed

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: ebbe3c763a8fd671205e362774373f806e208b10000b8c42180c9c8f298521b9
x86_64
rear-2.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 570c31ec51c56e4ab692c21b8e2acdbc0ea0b1e919b3bab524ae3d17440eb42d
rear-debuginfo-2.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 102fe1ed7ac3d91c3c652b354aae39cc1b776922b3b770abe619c70126c8a4ed

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: ebbe3c763a8fd671205e362774373f806e208b10000b8c42180c9c8f298521b9
x86_64
rear-2.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 570c31ec51c56e4ab692c21b8e2acdbc0ea0b1e919b3bab524ae3d17440eb42d
rear-debuginfo-2.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 102fe1ed7ac3d91c3c652b354aae39cc1b776922b3b770abe619c70126c8a4ed

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: ebbe3c763a8fd671205e362774373f806e208b10000b8c42180c9c8f298521b9
ppc64
rear-2.4-2.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: dbbc4e61ff8c38d9965cc4b45cd7ce88bc462b145cc276d069efe31227d30535
rear-debuginfo-2.4-2.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 307d145f49ee91385d9f1f284cf7edc632dcc32839ba27c5c2e6a4a41efe455e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: ebbe3c763a8fd671205e362774373f806e208b10000b8c42180c9c8f298521b9
x86_64
rear-2.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 570c31ec51c56e4ab692c21b8e2acdbc0ea0b1e919b3bab524ae3d17440eb42d
rear-debuginfo-2.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 102fe1ed7ac3d91c3c652b354aae39cc1b776922b3b770abe619c70126c8a4ed

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: ebbe3c763a8fd671205e362774373f806e208b10000b8c42180c9c8f298521b9
ppc64le
rear-2.4-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: f6b883fd3ef78afe7afaf453889c863ec09f9a81cf9ed6916c9c67457f043950
rear-debuginfo-2.4-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b10e3d964d01159cb6b66d2e2a4fcac121ad6b5ecb811415a119ccc581257be9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: ebbe3c763a8fd671205e362774373f806e208b10000b8c42180c9c8f298521b9
aarch64
rear-2.4-2.el7.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 2971f1bd7176209143424297615063edf324ede6d93011b0c4c4506dca4e32c3
rear-debuginfo-2.4-2.el7.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 3cce55c0f4244e2f39cca5895d8ebaf520be1d136499519b36305561c5125de2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: ebbe3c763a8fd671205e362774373f806e208b10000b8c42180c9c8f298521b9
ppc64le
rear-2.4-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: f6b883fd3ef78afe7afaf453889c863ec09f9a81cf9ed6916c9c67457f043950
rear-debuginfo-2.4-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b10e3d964d01159cb6b66d2e2a4fcac121ad6b5ecb811415a119ccc581257be9

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