Hi, I’m testing out Duplicacy and I like a lot of the key features. I’d love to become a licensed user - but I’ve run into several issues.
The biggest issue for me is that, when installed/run as instructed in the docs, Duplicacy is unable to back up all files on a Mac running recent MacOS (in my case, Sonoma 14.2.1, but I think this would affect the last several major versions of MacOS, at least).
The key problem is that Duplicacy is not running as root - so of course, it can’t read all files on the disk, and therefore can’t back them up. I have already added an exclusions file (inspired by default settings used in Arq), but that’s not enough - and I see that Duplicacy is running with my own UID rather than 0, so it makes sense that it logs things like
WARN LIST_FAILURE Failed to list subdirectory Users/admin/Desktop/: open /Users/admin/Desktop: permission denied
Arq does not have permissions issues, once Full Disk Access is given to it, since it has an “agent” that runs as root. Is there a documented way to install/run Duplicacy in a similar way?