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

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