Rear excludes all filesystems if docker is running, backup is empty

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • ReaR backup finishes very quickly and the backup.tar.gz is empty:

    Creating tar archive '/mnt/rear/rear.5udelk5Llkqj/outputfs/server1/backup.tar.gz'
    Preparing archive operationOK
    
  • We can't see the tar command completed, for example:

    Creating tar archive '/tmp/rear.1B6hO6CKD381XH1/outputfs/rhel7/backup.tar.gz'
    Archived 824 MiB [avg 6490 KiB/sec] OK
    Archived 824 MiB in 131 seconds [avg 6441 KiB/sec]
    Exiting rear mkbackup (PID 11625) and its descendant processes
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Rear
  • Docker

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