RHBA-2022:0069 - 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.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• In case of NETFS_KEEP_OLD_BACKUP_COPY=1 and a failure happens during the

backup, the old backup is removed also (BZ#1843585)

• Restore: rear doesn't create the EFI entry when software raid is used

(BZ#1945869)

• The use of rsync with a user different than root will not restore links

during the recovery (BZ#1947064)

• PPC64: grub2-install doesn't execute properly, making the recovered

system unbootable (BZ#1983000)

• PPC64: required "bootlist" executable may be missing, preventing system

from being recovered (BZ#1983008)

• release version with https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2544 included

(BZ#2031833)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

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 - 1843585 - In case of NETFS_KEEP_OLD_BACKUP_COPY=1 and a failure happens during the backup, the old backup is removed also
• BZ - 1945869 - Restore: rear doesn't create the EFI entry when software raid is used
• BZ - 1947064 - The use of rsync with a user different than root will not restore links during the recovery
• BZ - 1983000 - PPC64: grub2-install doesn't execute properly, making the recovered system unbootable
• BZ - 1983008 - PPC64: required "bootlist" executable may be missing, preventing system from being recovered
• BZ - 2031833 - release version with https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2544 included

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)