Re: [BackupPC-users] chroot failed

2019-11-07 Thread David Williams
Oli, Thanks for the reply. About 1 hour after I sent my email I realized that the issue was not with sudo, but with SSH and as you state below, the key. Once I realized this I was able to get the login working without the password :) Now, I am seeing if I have everything else configured corre

Re: [BackupPC-users] chroot failed

2019-10-16 Thread Robert Trevellyan
Are you using tar via SMB for macOS hosts? Any reason not to use rsync? My conjecture is that whatever runs on the host to cooperate with BackupPC needs Full Disk Access, but I don't know what that would mean for tar/SMB on macOS. It's not clear to me that anything is launched on the host during s

Re: [BackupPC-users] chroot failed

2019-10-16 Thread David Williams
Robert, Thanks for that. What commands would I need to give access to though? I am connecting via smbclient from my Linux server. Here is the SmbClientFullCmd: $smbClientPath \\$host\$shareName $I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc$X_option - $fileList Regards,

Re: [BackupPC-users] chroot failed

2019-10-16 Thread Robert Trevellyan
You probably need to make adjustments in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Full Disk Access (on the client) to give the relevant commands the access they need. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:31 PM David Williams wrote: > I am pretty sure that this particular i

[BackupPC-users] chroot failed

2019-10-15 Thread David Williams
I am pretty sure that this particular issue started after the upgrade to macOS Catalina. My backups are now failing when it comes to backing up my Documents directory with the error message of chroot failed. Can someone help me troubleshoot and get this working again. I did a google search bu