ReaR cannot restore system disk made of multipath + software raid devices
Issue
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Trying to restore the backup using
rear recoverfails with the following error# rear recover ... Disk configuration is identical, proceeding with restore. Start system layout restoration. Creating partitions for disk /dev/mapper/mpathb (msdos) An error occurred during layout recreation. -
ReaR corresponding log file shows the following error
+++ parted -s /dev/mapper/mpathb mklabel msdos Error: Could not stat device /dev/mapper/mpathb - No such file or directory. -
multipath -lcommand doesn't list the multipath disk# multipath -l
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- rear-2.00
- multipath
- software raid (mdadm)
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