sda2 (lvmdev) SLES 10¶

Labels: documentation, support / question

microchipmatt opened issue at 2015-03-24 16:08:¶

When I try to restore a SLES10 SP3 OES2SP2 Linux install from the the rear rescue iso, I get the error:
No code has been generated to retore device pv:/dev/mapper/sda2 (lvmdev)
Here is the output of disklayout.conf:

http://pastebin.com/A9jCjFiT

gdha commented at 2015-03-25 08:39:¶

@microchipmatt I noticed that you are using evms (fs /dev/evms/lvm2/system/root / reiserfs) which to my knowledge is not supported by rear. Personally, I never worked wit evms so I'm not much of help in this particular case.

microchipmatt commented at 2015-03-25 10:18:¶

That was my fear...was that it wasn't supported....I am struggling to find a decent way to protect my old oes2 spy servers running on SLES 10 with EVMS/LVM containers...it was the old management system for Novell OES SLES 10 Linux and NSS before NLVM.

schlomo commented at 2015-03-25 10:39:¶

OES2? Long time no see...

I basically can imagine the following options:

Convert EVMS to LVM
Contribute code to ReaR to support EVMS (IMHO not worth the effort as EVMS is a dead project)
Use a different backup method for your system, for example based on Imaging.
If this is a VM, backup the VM on the hypervisor level.
...

HTH,
Schlomo

gdha commented at 2015-08-06 12:56:¶

Need to add to the documentation that EVMS is not supported.

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]