Data protection operation fails in a non-multipath environment in RHEL 7 and later

Description

When you perform any data protection operations in a non-multipath environment in RHEL 7 and later, the operations fail with an error message.

Error message

Failed to deport the underlying stack of the file system mount_path as the file system belongs to volume group volume_group_name, and one or more physical volumes of the same volume group could not be successfully deported.

Corrective action

1. Disable or stop the logical volume manager (LVM) metadata service: systemctl lvm2-lvmetad.service stop
2. Change the configuration value of use_lvmetad from 1 to 0 in the lvm.conf file.

   The file is located at: /etc/lvm/ directory.

3. Restart the LVM metadata service.