Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2273 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2019-08-06
Updated:
2019-08-06

RHBA-2019:2273 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

rear bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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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 7.7 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1462189 - ReaR cannot create ISO images larger than 4GB due to Red Hat change that removes mkisofs
  • BZ - 1631183 - Backup using tar always succeeds, even in case of tar error
  • BZ - 1652853 - Netbackup restore not functional anymore
  • BZ - 1653214 - Record permanent mac address when device is enslaved in a bond, or else /etc/mac-addresses will record broken information
  • BZ - 1655956 - Automatically exclude $BUILD_DIR from the backup
  • BZ - 1659137 - ReaR doesn't restore the network configuration when custom interface naming is used
  • BZ - 1672938 - ReaR unable to create the Rescue ISO when having a lot of multipath devices
  • BZ - 1685166 - Record permanent mac address when device is enslaved in a team, or else /etc/mac-addresses will record broken information

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
x86_64
rear-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 576df045e7f9658416e3c3ec13c500d3461aa05d15af8281648f132777eb4641
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 70c0e8550ba11d93611decbb36e6a3f378366692fe90fda3818250921e3cb08c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
x86_64
rear-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 576df045e7f9658416e3c3ec13c500d3461aa05d15af8281648f132777eb4641
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 70c0e8550ba11d93611decbb36e6a3f378366692fe90fda3818250921e3cb08c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
x86_64
rear-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 576df045e7f9658416e3c3ec13c500d3461aa05d15af8281648f132777eb4641
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 70c0e8550ba11d93611decbb36e6a3f378366692fe90fda3818250921e3cb08c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
x86_64
rear-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 576df045e7f9658416e3c3ec13c500d3461aa05d15af8281648f132777eb4641
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 70c0e8550ba11d93611decbb36e6a3f378366692fe90fda3818250921e3cb08c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
ppc64
rear-2.4-7.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 8359ff031129e09f435373daeb2c1fb2e057d43922c7813b5f19becd00631bab
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 6f5eccc0147c5fc540b9e1fcae9f531bd87e4fa1799dba6382ff99b25c4f5da7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
x86_64
rear-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 576df045e7f9658416e3c3ec13c500d3461aa05d15af8281648f132777eb4641
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 70c0e8550ba11d93611decbb36e6a3f378366692fe90fda3818250921e3cb08c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
ppc64le
rear-2.4-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: cbfc969f014d9b72fd796031e39b02229600a3b86c9d26079fb04ed20155c379
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 9c74c91fb5ef951c52ebec85fccccea5bd49539222eb8760b3017b7f5198c241

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
ppc64
rear-2.4-7.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 8359ff031129e09f435373daeb2c1fb2e057d43922c7813b5f19becd00631bab
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 6f5eccc0147c5fc540b9e1fcae9f531bd87e4fa1799dba6382ff99b25c4f5da7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7

SRPM
rear-2.4-7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 137c605af02cf37b4b2df5288e8c8e459877103d92bf4c28a8921974170dd9d9
ppc64le
rear-2.4-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: cbfc969f014d9b72fd796031e39b02229600a3b86c9d26079fb04ed20155c379
rear-debuginfo-2.4-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 9c74c91fb5ef951c52ebec85fccccea5bd49539222eb8760b3017b7f5198c241

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