Forward: I'm using Macfusion to mount volumes via SSHFS, but this is a
problem when the volumes are mounted manually, too (i.e. via the
commandline w/ sshfs).

I dont know if this is a problem with Silverkeeper or with MacFUSE,
and i'm not sure exactly how to figure out which...but when I try to
use LaCie's free Silverkeeper (backup utility @
http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ ) to select a SSHFS mounted volume
as a source, it refuses to see inside, or even read the source in the
"select source" dialog box, which is akin to an open file dialog box
as far as I can tell.  I've noticed, however that in other programs
(e.g. Textedit, Word, etc) the open dialog box correctly displays the
mounted volume and the files within (and said files are accessible as
per normal).  I've tried the -olocal option to treat the mounted
volume as local.  And although that works fine for the Finder, it
still doesnt fix the Silverkeeper problem.

Any suggestions on what I should try, or which program's fault this
bug is ?

Clearly the problem lies in an interaction between
Silverkeeper and MacFUSE volumes, because Silverkeeper works with many
different brands of drive as well as mounted network shares (i've used
AFS shares successfully before as source and destination).

My question is: How does Silverkeeper know the difference?  Shouldn't
MacFUSE drives appear to it like any other drive?  And more
importantly.. if Silverkeeper has this problem, what other software
has this problem that we are yet to discover?



P.S.  My overall goal here is a backup solution, for which I would
normally use rsync, but it's not installed on the remote side, and all
I have is sftp access, so I figured what I'd do was mount the ssh
access as a volume w/ MacFUSE and then use silverkeeper to do a
backup.  And yes, I know, I could use rsync locally after i've mounted
the volumes w/ MacFUSE, which, essentially is my solution at the
moment.  I'm more troubled by an app treating the MacFUSE volume
differently than a normal volume, as I was under the impression that
MacFUSE volumes were supposed to be indistinguishable.
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