The other question is what you get back when you restore the files that had the errors? Do their md5/sha256 hashes match the files found on disk? I suppose this would be less frightening if the errors are only about some sort of metadata, but the files themselves are being backed up correctly. It is still a problem, though, because ideally you don't want to have to ignore error conditions, because this could lead to missing a more serious problem.
Actually, I wonder if the bacula-fd daemon has suitable permissions to access the files in question. I know the FD runs as root, but I remember that when running find operations on a Mac as root, I needed to continually give permission for terminal to access documents folder, calendar folder, etc. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 [email protected] On Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:01 AM Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/13/26 16:03, Rob Gerber wrote: > > I wonder what you find when you investigate the files mentioned in the > > error messages. Does an 'ls -lah $filename' show any details, or give an > > error? > > No error and nothing else but the > permissions/user/group/size/date/filename. > E.g. > ls -lah $filename > -rw-r--r--@ 1 user staff 2.3M Aug 17 2022 $filename > > Notice some files have the "@", others don't. > > > > > Are the files all related to a specific program? > > I guess the answer is no... > Some files are in "/Users/.../Library/Mail/", some in a folder which > holds data taken from an older Mac. > > > > > Are all the files of > > type .nib, or are they different types? > > No. > Most are .nib, but I also see see one ".pdf", one ".strings", one > ".itxib", one ".plist"... > > > > > I wonder also if it is talking about apple extended attributes, or > > something else. > > That would be a good question. > I hoped someone who knows would step up. > If I had to bet on this, I'd say no, since only a few of these files > seem to have extended attributes (see above for the @). > > > > > I think if you can predict what bacula will complain about, and if you > > can predict that the files or types aren't important, you can exclude > > them from your backup. > > Unfortunately I'm not sure these can be excluded. > I'd have to check with the user (which will be a hard task). > > > > bye & Thanks > av. >
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