Restic on MacOS Yosemite

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So I’m trying to run v0.17.0 on MacOS Yosemite. I’ve got 4TB of data I need to fit into 2TB, and if there’s anything that’ll do it, it’s Restic. This is an ancient Mac Pro from 2008.

When I try to run the prebuilt binary, I get this:

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I also couldn’t get Go to install, but I think it might with v1.12. Not sure if that will compile Restic v0.17.0 but I’m going to try it.

Is there anything else I’m missing as to why the prebuilt binary wouldn’t run?? It’s an Intel chip, at least.

UPDATE: I thought better of it and just pulled the hard drive, and am backing up on my modern Mac instead lol

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Yes this is probably the best course of action in this case:)

IMO problem is that software built with specific Xcode version has so called the minimum deployment target - the oldest macOS version it can run. For latest Xcode (14 and later) that’s macOS 10.13 High Sierra. It means that macOS 10.10 Yosemite is not supported by Apple own development tools any more.

If interested about details you can read more here - Will updated apps still run on older macOS? – The Eclectic Light Company

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golang 1.22 requires at least macOS 10.15 Catalina, see Go 1.22 Release Notes - The Go Programming Language . Support for 10.10 has been dropped by Go quite a long time ago.

That won’t work, the minimum required Go version is 1.19.

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Yeah. Didn’t think it would.

It was best I pulled the drives anyway. One drive in the mirror array had already failed, and the other one was on the way out. Got all the data off, though. 4TB of databases, now neatly packed into 1.5TB :grin:

A lab had saved it under a desk, forgotten - but with important databases they might need to consult some day. It came up in conversation and I’m like… you know that thing’s probably dead by now, right? I wasn’t too far off the mark haha

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