User folder access in MacOS Catalina

[martlego]

Hello, I’m trying to backup my documents to a GCP bucket, and I get warnings in the process regarding multiple folders, such as Documents:

Warnings: [ 2019-11-18 23:23:56 -05 - [Warning-Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.Backup.FileEnumerationProcess-FileAccessError]: Error reported while accessing file: /Users/martlego/Desktop/,
2019-11-18 23:23:56 -05 - [Warning-Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.Backup.FileEnumerationProcess-FileAccessError]: Error reported while accessing file: /Users/martlego/Desktop/,
2019-11-18 23:23:56 -05 - [Warning-Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.Backup.FileEnumerationProcess-FileAccessError]: Error reported while accessing file: /Users/martlego/Documents/,
2019-11-18 23:23:56 -05 - [Warning-Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.Backup.FileEnumerationProcess-FileAccessError]: Error reported while accessing file: /Users/martlego/Documents/,
2019-11-18 23:23:56 -05 - [Warning-Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.Backup.FileEnumerationProcess-FileAccessError]: Error reported while accessing file: /Users/martlego/Downloads/,
…

Pictures, Movies and Music are the only folders that worked. From the looks of it, there are no differences in permissions at the folder level.

Now I have followed some of the tips provided from previous MacOS versions, such as this one: File access on macOS Mojave
As shown on the following screenshot, to give access to the application to the whole disk:

Does anyone have further tips on what permissions I could be missing?

[drwtsn32]

I don’t have access to a Mac so can’t help directly, but there were some discussions over in this thread:

Running on MacOS Catalina Beta

I think you need to restart Duplicati for the permissions to kick in. I have not tested this, but if you are using an updated version that runs from the update folder, it is possible that it does not inherit the permissions. The first step just registers Duplicati to run as a system service, it is not required for normal operations. I tried various workarounds for this, but could not get it to work. If I grant terminal full access, I can launch the app from the commandline and all works. Bu…

[martlego]

Thanks @drwtsn32, moving to the canary build did fix the issue: Release: 2.0.4.34 (canary) 2019-11-05

How long can we expect it will take until this gets folded into the Beta? Similarly, there was another feature that has been addressed but that I cannot find in the GUI yet: https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/pull/3582

[kenkendk]

How long can we expect it will take until this gets folded into the Beta?

We are currently investigating a problem with interrupted backups:

"Stop after current file" has various problems with partial backups

I expect that the current canary will move to a beta once that is resolved.

Similarly, there was another feature that has been addressed but that I cannot find in the GUI yet: https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/pull/3582

It should be in the list of backup options under backup-test-percentage.

[martlego]

Thanks for sharing @kenkendk, I found the feature in the canary, but it wasn’t in the beta. Looking forward to the beta.