Permissions issues with mounting remote server into a specific folder

I'm doing the following to mount a remote server to a specific path on my server:

sshfs [email protected]:/backup/folder/ /home/myuser/server-backups/

However when I mount the server the folder permissions change (they become 700), and when I test my rsnapshot.conf file I get the following error:

snapshot_root /home/myuser/server-backups/ - snapshot_root exists \
         but is not readable

What am I doing wrong ? should I mount the remote server with another user ?

Solution 1:

On the backup server make a directory to put the backups in

mkdir /home/patrick/backups

On your vps

Add your user account to the fuse group

sudo usermod -a -G fuse patrick

Edit the /etc/fuse.conf file and uncomment or add the line

user_allow_other

make a mount point for sshfs and connect to it

mkdir /backups

sshfs [email protected]:/home/patrick/backups /backups -o allow_root

You should now have a /backups directory that you can use rsnapshot with on your vps.

You could try the -o allow_root and -o allow_other options to sshfs.