# Sshfs and backup

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sshfs-and-backup/256225>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** backups\
**Created:** [February 25, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sshfs-and-backup/256225 "2023-02-25T05:51:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![leonardo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/leonardo/32/228634_2.png) [@leonardo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leonardo)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sshfs-and-backup/256225/4 "2023-03-01T14:22:24Z")

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Hi!

This likely happens because the Discourse backup process runs with effective user ID 0, thus you will likely need to pass [this option](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSHFS#Permissions_based_options) to `sshfs`:

```bash
sshfs -o allow_root SERVER:PATH MOUNT_POINT

```

Or if you’re using unprivileged containers, `allow_other` instead.

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