Hi
Getting errors on MacOS backing up my Documents folder (which is in iCloud).
“Avoided Resource Deadlock”
From looking at other backup tools it appears this error is most likely due to the files not being present in the Documents folder and rather only references as MacOS has probably cleaned up the files.
Is there any way to set Kopia to request download of files before backup? Arqbackup has this feature.
Thanks
Nope.
You could maybe write your own script doing it and run before invoking kopia backup.
If your local drive has sufficient available space to store all of your iCloud content (or at least the content that you really want to back up using Kopia), and if you are running macOS Sequoia or later, you can right-click/control-click on folders and documents and choose Keep Downloaded.
These files will then be available on your drive for Kopia to back up. Note that if you create new folders and documents outside of folders already marked as Keep Downloaded, you will need to mark these new items as well.
To automate it here you are command to force download all items in the current folder:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 brctl download
I tested it with iCloud Drive only but it should work with Documents too.