Carbon Copy Cloner with PD11 Pro (FIXED)

[DoniK]

Is anyone using Carbon Copy Cloner's Parallels Desktop pause/start scripts from https://bombich.com/kb/ccc4/performing-actions-before-and-after-backup-task with PD11 Pro (or Business)? The scripts work okay from terminal, but whenever applied to a CCC job, I always get errors "Could not read path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist" even though that file isn't part of PD anymore. I tried recreating the scripts in different ways, using the same concepts, but always get the same error no matter how I call prlctl.

So it seems either something has changed with PD11 file structure that is causing problems calling prlctl. Or maybe it's that + El Capitan changes causing path or other user variable issues I haven't figured out. (I've tried several ways of specifying prlctl command paths within the CCC scripts, incl creating symlinks, but none has worked yet.)

If anyone is using CCC with PD11 and can offer advice, much appreciated. Thanks! (For now I've created an Automator job rather than applying the scripts within CCC.)

 

[DoniK]

Turns out, the pre-canned CCC scripts didn't work for me because the prlctl pause command doesn't work when the display is sleeping. The log errors were a red herring. The prlctl suspend command works fine with CCC jobs, though, so use that as a workaround. FYI, in case someone else encounters this. I've created a new thread:
https://forum.parallels.com/threads/pd11-pro-prlctl-pause-doesnt-work-with-display-sleep.336208/

 

[DoniK]

Update: Turns out it was a scripting error, I wasn't passing credentials properly. I'm not sure why it worked sometimes, but now that I've corrected my scripts, all's good. The console errors from my earlier post are irrelevant and can be ignored. prctl pause script --> CCC job --> prctl start script. (Still absurd you need Pro to do backups, though.)