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aneuryzm
Asked: 2011-01-09 07:37:20 +0800 CST

Permissions issues with mounting remote server into a specific folder

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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 ?

mount

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

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

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  2. 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.

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  3. Set this up on Raspberry Pi (admittedly different distro) but I had the same problem with permission denied. -o allow_other added to the end of the mount call worked a treat.

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