ReaR backup fails on Veritas Filesystem in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- ReaR backup fails on Veritas filesystem.
# rear -d -D mkbackup
Relax-and-Recover 1.17.2 / Git
Using log file: /var/log/rear/rear-auspeccdb01.log
Using UEFI Boot Loader for Linux (USING_UEFI_BOOTLOADER=1)
Creating disk layout
Excluding Volume Group .
Excluding Volume Group SAPIMPORT
Creating root filesystem layout
TIP: To login as root via ssh you need to set up /root/.ssh/authorized_keys or SSH_ROOT_PASSWORD in your configuration file
Copying files and directories
ERROR: Could not copy files and directories
Aborting due to an error, check /var/log/rear/rear-auspeccdb01.log for details
You should also rm -Rf /tmp/rear.kdhv3ILoMW1y2RV
Terminated
- rear.log
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: dev/dmpconfig: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
tar: dev/vx/dmpconfig: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
++ StopIfError 'Could not copy files and directories'
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- vxfs
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