ReaR recovery fails with "No filesystem mounted on '/mnt/local'. Stopping."

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Trying to recover a system using rear recover fails with error shown below

    # rear recover
...
Comparing disks.
Disk configuration is identical, proceeding with restore.
Start system layout restoration.
Disk layout created.
ERROR: No filesystem mounted on '/mnt/local'. Stopping.
Aborting due to an error, check /var/log/rear/rear-xxx.log for details
Terminated

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • rear 2.00

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