How to exclude the recreation on some of the mount point devices while recovering with Relax and Recover(ReaR) ?

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Issue

  • How to exclude the recreation on some of the mount point devices while recovering with Relax and Recover(ReaR) ?
  • We want to take backup of only to OS disk and not the application data disk which is separate disk and also skip the recreating of the data disk partitions and file system during the recovery process ?
  • Even with the usage of ONLY_INCLUDE_VG to only include rhel volume group, still other devices which is not part of the this VG its still recreating the non-OS mount point device /data

    # lsblk
    NAME          MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
    sr0            11:0    1  4.2G  0 rom  
    vda           252:0    0    8G  0 disk 
    ├─vda1        252:1    0    1G  0 part /boot
    └─vda2        252:2    0    7G  0 part 
      ├─rhel-root 253:0    0  6.1G  0 lvm  /
      └─rhel-swap 253:1    0  924M  0 lvm  [SWAP]
    vdb           252:16   0    1G  0 disk 
    └─vdb1        252:17   0 1023M  0 part /data
    
    $ cat /etc/rear/local.conf
    OUTPUT=ISO
    OUTPUT_URL=nfs://192.168.122.161/nfs
    BACKUP=NETFS
    BACKUP_URL=nfs://192.168.122.161/nfs
    ONLY_INCLUDE_VG=( "rhel" )
    BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=( "${BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE[@]}" '/var/tmp' '/var/cache/' '/tmp' '/data' )
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • ReaR

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