ReaR cannot restore system disk made of multipath + software raid devices

Issue

• Trying to restore the backup using rear recover fails 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 -l command doesn't list the multipath disk

  # multipath -l