[Borgbackup] Mac OS Mojave

[Stefan Buehler]

Dear Roland, dear all,

I have tried the solution described in Roland’s link and can confirm that it works. (To make a small binary executable with full disk access that then executes the backup shell script.)

Thanks for your help!

Stefan

> On 19. Jan 2019, at 18:51, devzero at web.de wrote:
> 
> mhh, apple knows what's good for you! ;)
> 
> did you know that apple store employees are forbidden to say words like "problem" ? :D  ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/03/claps-and-cheers-apple-stores-carefully-managed-drama )
> 
> i hate such things..  breaking functionality because of security and not telling how to properly handle those broken things and simply being ignorant. apple is a very ignorant and patronzing company, imho... 
> 
> maybe this taks you a step further?
> 
> https://n8henrie.com/2018/11/how-to-give-full-disk-access-to-a-binary-in-macos-mojave/
> 
> please keep us posted...
> 
> regards
> roland
> 
>> Gesendet: Samstag, 19. Januar 2019 um 17:58 Uhr
>> Von: "Stefan Buehler" <stefan at sbuehler.de>
>> An: devzero at web.de
>> Cc: borgbackup at python.org
>> Betreff: Re: [Borgbackup] Mac OS Mojave
>> 
>> Hi Devzero,
>> 
>> thanks for pointing me to this. Oh dear, it confirms my fear that there probably is no simple solution. It took me a lot of trial and error to get my script setup to work initially, but since then I has been wonderfully stable. I hate the idea of going through a similar trial and error setup and debugging process again.
>> 
>> I wish somebody would make a high-level Mac tool based on borg, that I could just install and use (and that has this issue figured out, of course). Perhaps this exists already and I missed it?
>> 
>> Anyway, of course I realise that this is not in principle a borg issue. But in some way it is, since it probably makes the program almost useless for many typical users on Mac.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Stefan
>> 
>>> On 19. Jan 2019, at 16:51, devzero at web.de wrote:
>>> 
>>> you may have a look at https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2051
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Gesendet: Samstag, 19. Januar 2019 um 13:23 Uhr
>>>> Von: "Stefan Buehler" <stefan at sbuehler.de>
>>>> An: borgbackup at python.org
>>>> Betreff: [Borgbackup] Mac OS Mojave
>>>> 
>>>> Dear Borg gurus,
>>>> 
>>>> I run borg on a Mac. Since I updated to Mojave, I get error messages of this kind:
>>>> 
>>>> /users/xxx/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary: scandir: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/users/xxx/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary’
>>>> 
>>>> I suspect this has to do with Mojave being more restrictive about letting apps access certain files or directories. Do you think giving “full disk access” to borg will solve this? Or should I give that to the shell script that runs borg for me, or…?
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps there are other Mac users out there that have also run into this and already solved it.
>>>> 
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> 
>>>> Stefan
>>>> 
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