Backups are inaccessible on OSX Mojave

[dunhamsteve]

Not sure what, if anything can be done to deal with this, but I figured I'd note the issue.

OSX Mojave is locking down the backup directory to the point that not even root can access it. If you boot from another partition, it is accessible.

I tried taking off the xattrs (booting from another partition), but it was locked again when I booted back into Mojave. One might be able use libimobiledevice to do backups.

I presume this issue prevents stuff like backblaze from picking up the data. I don't know if time machine can see it.

[dunhamsteve]

Update on this - iTerm now asks you to grant it "Full Disk Access" in settings. If you do so, you can access the MobileSync directory from the command line in iTerm, and irestore works when run from iTerm.