diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index c7711cbc0..10a195335 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -243,6 +243,16 @@ FUSE for OS X, which is available via `github brew cask install osxfuse # needed for llfuse +For OS X Catalina and later, be aware that you must authorize full disk access. +It is no longer sufficient to run borg backups as root. If you have not yet +granted full disk access, and you run Borg backup from cron, you will see +messages such as:: + + /Users/you/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary: scandir: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: + +To fix this problem, you should grant full disk acccess to cron, and to your +Terminal application. More information `can be found here +`. FreeBSD ++++++++