rear mkrescue fails on new system

[BenGig]

Hi

95_copy_result_files.sh wants to copy files to /var/lib/rear/output which does not exists on a new system. Consequently the job fails. I searched the issues but did not found anything, is this by design to not create the directory, or just went unnoticed until now?

Regards
Ben

[schlomo]

How did you install ReaR?

Please provide the output of "rear dump"

On 16 July 2014 15:08, BenGig notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi

95_copy_result_files.sh wants to copy files to /var/lib/rear which does
not exists on a new system. Consequently the job fails. I searched the
issues but did not found anything, is this by design to not create the
directory, or just went unnoticed until now?

Regards
Ben

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[BenGig]

On RHEL6, by yum from EPEL:

Name        : rear                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.16.1                            Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 1.el6                         Build Date: Mon 02 Jun 2014 14:55:26 CEST
Install Date: Die 15 Jul 2014 12:15:30 CEST      Build Host: buildvm-21.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group       : Applications/File             Source RPM: rear-1.16.1-1.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 849736                           License: GPLv3
Signature   : RSA/8, Mon 02 Jun 2014 17:19:50 CEST, Key ID 3b49df2a0608b895

Output of rear dump:

Relax-and-Recover 1.16.1 / Git
Using log file: /var/log/rear/rear-id-lnx-vcl-x64.log.lockless
Dumping out configuration and system information
This is a 'Linux-x86_64' system, compatible with 'Linux-i386'.
System definition:
                                    ARCH = Linux-i386
                                      OS = GNU/Linux
                        OS_MASTER_VENDOR = Fedora
                       OS_MASTER_VERSION = 6
                   OS_MASTER_VENDOR_ARCH = Fedora/i386
                OS_MASTER_VENDOR_VERSION = Fedora/6
           OS_MASTER_VENDOR_VERSION_ARCH = Fedora/6/i386
                               OS_VENDOR = RedHatEnterpriseServer
                              OS_VERSION = 6
                          OS_VENDOR_ARCH = RedHatEnterpriseServer/i386
                       OS_VENDOR_VERSION = RedHatEnterpriseServer/6
                  OS_VENDOR_VERSION_ARCH = RedHatEnterpriseServer/6/i386
Configuration tree:
                         Linux-i386.conf : OK
                          GNU/Linux.conf : OK
                             Fedora.conf : missing/empty
                        Fedora/i386.conf : missing/empty
                           Fedora/6.conf : missing/empty
                      Fedora/6/i386.conf : missing/empty
             RedHatEnterpriseServer.conf : missing/empty
        RedHatEnterpriseServer/i386.conf : missing/empty
           RedHatEnterpriseServer/6.conf : missing/empty
      RedHatEnterpriseServer/6/i386.conf : missing/empty
                               site.conf : missing/empty
                              local.conf : OK
Backup with TSM
                  TSM_ARCHIVE_MGMT_CLASS = 
                TSM_DSMC_RESTORE_OPTIONS = 
                    TSM_RESTORE_PIT_DATE = 
                    TSM_RESTORE_PIT_TIME = 
                    TSM_RESULT_FILE_PATH = /opt/tivoli/tsm/rear
                         TSM_RESULT_SAVE = y                                                                                                                                                                                             
                          TSM_RM_ISOFILE =                                                                                                                                                                                               
                  BACKUP_INTEGRITY_CHECK =                                                                                                                                                                                               
                         BACKUP_MOUNTCMD =                                                                                                                                                                                               
                          BACKUP_OPTIONS =                                                                                                                                                                                               
                    BACKUP_RSYNC_OPTIONS = --sparse --archive --hard-links --verbose --numeric-ids --stats                                                                                                                               
                  BACKUP_SELINUX_DISABLE = 1                                                                                                                                                                                             
                             BACKUP_TYPE =                                                                                                                                                                                               
                        BACKUP_UMOUNTCMD =                                                                                                                                                                                               
                              BACKUP_URL = file:///root/rear                                                                                                                                                                             
Output to PXE                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
                         PXE_CONFIG_PATH = /root/rear/pxe                                                                                                                                                                                
                       PXE_CONFIG_PREFIX = rear-                                                                                                                                                                                         
                        PXE_CREATE_LINKS = MAC                                                                                                                                                                                           
                    PXE_REMOVE_OLD_LINKS =                                                                                                                                                                                               
                           PXE_TFTP_PATH = /var/lib/rear/output                                                                                                                                                                          
                         PXE_TFTP_PREFIX = id-lnx-vcl-x64.                                                                                                                                                                               
                           RESULT_MAILTO =                                                                                                                                                                                               

/usr/share/rear/lib/validated/RedHatEnterpriseServer/6/i386.txt                                                                                                                                                                          
Your system is validated with the following details:                                                                                                                                                                                     
Relax and Recover Version 1.13.0 / $Date$                                                                                                                                                                                                
Validation:     RedHatEnterpriseServer/6/i386                                                                                                                                                                                            
Submitted:      tdec0909@yahoo.com, Marcel Keil <marcelk@tim.de>                                                                                                                                                                         
Date:           2013-05-21, 2014-03-18                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Features:       LVM, VMware guest, ISO, NETFS, NSR                                                                                                                                                                                       
Comment:

[gdha]

@BenGig it works for me. If you remove rear (via rpm -e rear) and re-install could you verify if the directory /var/lib/rear content?

[BenGig]

Sorry about the vacation related delay.

After rpm -e rear: /var/lib/rear remained with the three subdirs output, layout and recovery. I then cleaned up with rm -rf /var/lib/rear.

Reinstalled with yum install rear, the installation created /var/lib/rear as an empty directory.

I found that configuring OUTPUT=ISO does indeed creates all the directories necessary. But: the option OUTPUT=PXE is triggering the problem, I could verify it on RHEL6 and on Fedora 20.

[gdha]

@BenGig I've fixed the issue - thanks for doing the troubleshooting...

[gdha]

added to the release notes so we can close this issue