#2670 Issue closed: Please start the restore process on your backup host during recovery

Labels: support / question, fixed / solved / done

4thomasmueller opened issue at 2021-08-17 10:43:

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  • ReaR version ("/usr/sbin/rear -V"):
    Relax-and-Recover 2.6-git.4317.be8b6ed.master / 2021-04-21

  • OS version ("cat /etc/os-release" or "lsb_release -a" or "cat /etc/rear/os.conf"):
    "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5"

  • ReaR configuration files ("cat /etc/rear/site.conf" and/or "cat /etc/rear/local.conf"):
    OUTPUT=ISO
    ISO_PREFIX="rear-nfs-$HOSTNAME"
    OUTPUT_URL=nfs://192.168.16.210/share/iso
    BACKUP=NETFS
    BACKUP_OPTIONS="nfsvers=3,nolock"
    BACKUP_URL=nfs://192.168.16.210/share/backup
    #KEEP_OLD_OUTPUT_COPY=yes
    AUTOEXCLUDE_MULTIPATH=y
    EXCLUDE_MOUNTPOINTS=('/global')

  • Hardware (PC or PowerNV BareMetal or ARM) or virtual machine (KVM guest or PoverVM LPAR):
    VMware Workstation 16

  • System architecture (x86 compatible or PPC64/PPC64LE or what exact ARM device):
    x86_64

  • Firmware (BIOS or UEFI or Open Firmware) and bootloader (GRUB or ELILO or Petitboot):
    BIOS

  • Storage (local disk or SSD) and/or SAN (FC or iSCSI or FCoE) and/or multipath (DM or NVMe):
    local SSD

  • Storage layout ("lsblk -ipo NAME,KNAME,PKNAME,TRAN,TYPE,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT" or "lsblk" as makeshift):
    NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
    sda 8:0 0 15G 0 disk
    └─sda1 8:1 0 15G 0 part
    ├─system-swap 254:0 0 1,4G 0 lvm [SWAP]
    └─system-root 254:1 0 10G 0 lvm /
    sdb 8:16 0 1G 0 disk
    sdc 8:32 0 2G 0 disk
    └─sdc1 8:33 0 2G 0 part /global
    sdd 8:48 0 3G 0 disk
    └─sdd1 8:49 0 3G 0 part /srv/www/htdocs
    sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
    sr1 11:1 1 1024M 0 rom

  • Description of the issue (ideally so that others can reproduce it):
    Backup:
    on system do a rear -v mkbackup -C /etc/rear/nfs-local.conf
    Rescuemedia and backuparchive will be created
    Restore:
    on system boot the created recovery iso file
    login as root
    do rear -v recover
    Disklayout will be created, NIC mapping is alos done, the the message "Please start the restore process on your backup host" like if I set BACKUP=REQUESTRESTORE, but I set BACKUP=NETFS

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4thomasmueller commented at 2021-08-17 11:12:

Update/Workaround: cp /etc/rear/nfs-local.conf /etc/rear/local.conf and run rear -v mkbackup without any other configfile.
But what effect has got the option -C <alternative_configfile> compared to default local.conf??

gdha commented at 2021-08-20 14:28:

@4thomasmueller Did you try to add the option -C ... before the mkbackup command? See https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/doc/user-guide/11-multiple-backups.adoc

4thomasmueller commented at 2021-08-20 16:49:

yes, I did it. But I've misunderstood that the -C option is additional to local.conf. All stuff in local.conf and it works.
Thx for reply

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