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

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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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