Relax & Recover (ReaR) does not backup multipath devices

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Creating a backup with ReaR excludes multipath devices.
  • Trying to backup a boot from SAN system that is using multipath, succeeds, but it creates an empty backup archive.

Environment

  • Red Enterprise Linux (the problem was observed in RHEL6.9, but it is not expected to be version specific)
  • ReaR (the problem was observed in version 1.17.2-4.el6, but it is not expected to be version specific)
  • System that uses multipath devices.

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