Apple has added some new privacy and security features into their OS with the release of macOS 10.14 Mojave and as a result this has caused Backblaze to have a couple of prompts after you upgraded in addition to not allowing Backblaze to backup some key places, including the photos directories that is very important to many users.

We are working on a solution for this, however until our update with is released a workaround is necessary to backup your Photos Library and other locations that have been locked down.

Please follow the steps below after upgrading to Mojave to unsure that the backups remain complete.  Failing to follow these steps will result in an incomplete backup and could remove data backup that relate to the following categories after 30 days.

  • Contacts
  • Calendars
  • Photos
  • Safari
  • Mail

After the Upgrade to Mojave Completes.

Once you upgrade to Mojave, you will get the following popup specifically for one of the backblaze program, bzbmenu.app

Click the “OK” button on this screen.

Next, you will need to click the Backblaze icon in the menubar.

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Then choose Backblaze Preferences, you will then be greeted with the following message:

Please click the “OK” button here as well, this will allow access to the System Preferences, where the Backblaze preferences reside.

In case, you did not allow access for bzbmenu initially, please click here to get instructions on how to allow access through the Mac Preferences settings.

Gaining Access to access the disk for Backups.

1. Open a Finder window and navigate the Library folder at the root of your Macintosh HD

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2. Right click the Backblaze.bzpkg and choose “Show Package Contents”

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3. Locate the “bzserv” file

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4. Open the System Preferences on your Mac by clicking the apple icon in the upper-left corner and select System preferences.

5. Click Security & Privacy settings.

6. Select “Full Disk Access” in the left-hand column

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7. If necessary, click the lock and enter your Mac’s username and password to allow you to make changes.

8. Click and drag the bzserv file in your Finder window to right-hand portion of the Security & Privacy window.

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9. Restart your Mac. Once the drive does a full scan again, it should backup everything that the Mojave upgrade excluded.

In the case that you did not allow bzbmenu access.

If you initially did not allow access to the bzbmenu program, you can do this now by following these steps:

  1. Go to the Mac System Preferences
  2. Click on Security & Privacy
  3. Choose “Automation” from the left-hand navigation
  4. Click the lock in the lower left to make changes, then sign in with the administrator user and password.
  5. Place check marks the boxes under the bzbmenu heading, these should read System Preferences, and System Events.

If you do not see the checkboxes above then you will need to do the following steps.

1. Click the magnifying glass for spotlight search, then type in terminal and double click the result.

2. Paste the following line into terminal, then hit the enter key:

tccutil reset AppleEvents

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3. Click the Backblaze icon, and it should bring up a popup, allow this popup.

Once you reboot, if it asks you about bzbmenu.app, please click Allow, this is what runs the icon when the mac starts up.

This should be all that is needed to grant full functionality to the Backblaze menubar icon.

C’est moi ou c’est à pleurer?

Vous vous rendez compte? Demander par exemple à l’utilisateur de voir le contenu du paquet! Et tout ça dans la librairie du disque… de le déplacer dans une fenêtre… Il faut n’avoir jamais formé des adultes à l’informatique pour ne pas se rendre compte des difficultés que beaucoup vont rencontrer.

Vous me direz que celui qui fait des sauvegardes en ligne est un utilisateur pointu… Pas toujours, et de moins en moins.

Alors oui, Mojave est un système incroyablement stable, bien fini, sur lequel il me semble que l’on peut compter, après 4 jours d’utilisation.

Mais enfin tout de même.

Et il faut entendre les développeurs qui deviennent dingues de ne plus pouvoir développer d’applications avec toutes les nouvelles barrières qu’Apple leur flanque dans le code de chaque nouveau système.

Je vois les difficultés que rencontrent les programmes de correction de type Antidote ou ProLexis. On leur met les bâtons dans les roues, et chaque fois, des bâtons plus larges et plus solides, plus aptes à casser les rayons.

Tant d’autres sont touchés.

Alors oui, il y a des moyens de détourner ces protections, certes, comme vous le montrent les exemples dont j’ai parlé plus haut.

Pire, certains vont désactiver le SIP pour faire fonctionner UN logiciel dont ils ont absolument besoin, et se retrouveront alors bien plus sujets à des problèmes de sécurité.

Là, on dirait qu’Apple a oublié ce qui fait sa force: la simplicité, et c’est bien dommage.

J’ai l’impression de mettre beaucoup les mains dans le cambouis depuis que je suis sur Mojave.

Et je n’aime pas faire ça, sinon, j’aurais choisi Linux.