On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Cal Sawyer <cal-s at blue-bolt.com> wrote: > > ReaR has suddenly become very interesting to me, probably explaining why > it utterly fails to work properly (for me).I'm using 1.13 to pull a > USB-based recovery image, but there's an error in the > backup/NETFS/default/50_make_backup.sh script that doesn't mount the USB > device after the mkrecovery step, so subsequent tar fails on write to > the non-existent mountpoint. I fixed that, but on recovery it fails to > mount the necessary directories on the restore drive as well, so "rear > recover" quickly bombs out. Is anyone having any success actually using > ReaR on CentOS 6.x? - csawyer It intentionally doesn't deal with drives the kernel has marked as removable. I had trouble with that with the main drives on a SAS hotswap backplane in an earlier version but I think that is fixed now. I'd recommend asking how to override this on the ReaR mail list. While the code seems usable (and yes, I have succeeded in using it on Centos 6x.), the documentation either doesn't exist yet or is very out of date. But, the authors are very responsive and it would be good to let them know about any bugs or usability problems. The mail list is still at sourceforge although the code has been moved to github and there is talk of moving the list elsewhere. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com