Please start the restore process on your backup host during recovery

[4thomasmueller]

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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

[4thomasmueller]

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]

@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]

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