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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Undefined
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None
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rhel-9.4
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None
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No
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Moderate
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Upstream
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rhel-sst-cs-base-utils
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None
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False
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None
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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None
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None
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None
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None
What were you trying to do that didn't work?
When recovering the system and the system has its disks on multipath, the grub2-install step fails because the code is not able to read the disk label of the disk to find the Grub device to install on.
See PR 3334
What is the impact of this issue to you?
Can't recover properly
Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:
rear-2.6-24.el9 but also Upstream
How reproducible is this bug?:
Always
Steps to reproduce
- Install a QEMU/KVM with disks in multipath (requires SCSI storage+RAW mode+ setup same SCSI ID on both disks)
- Create backup
ONLY_INCLUDE_VG=( "rhel" ) AUTOEXCLUDE_MULTIPATH=n FIRMWARE_FILES=( 'no' ) PROGS+=( vim ) BACKUP=NETFS BACKUP_URL=nfs://192.168.122.1/home/rmetrich/REAR BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=( '/var/tmp/*' '/var/cache/*/*' )
- Recover the same system
Expected results
No issue restoring
Actual results
Failure when trying to detect the device to run grub2-install on