Comment 8 for bug 648754

malaakso@lempo:~$ ps aux | grep -i gvfs-fuse-daemon
malaakso 1802 0.0 0.0 78668 2668 ? Ssl Sep28 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/malaakso/.gvfs
root 20938 0.0 0.0 78484 2424 ? Ssl 16:19 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfs-fuse-daemon /root/.gvfs
malaakso 21070 0.0 0.0 10104 920 pts/15 S+ 16:24 0:00 grep -i gvfs-fuse-daemon

interestingly, when I press "Connect" in the destination tab, the root .gvfs folder contains

malaakso@lempo:~/.gvfs$ sudo ls -l /root/.gvfs
ls: cannot access /root/.gvfs/sftp for malaakso on phys: Input/output error
total 0
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? sftp for malaakso on phys

but a green check mark appears next to the destination text box. When I try to initiate the backup, nothing appears under /root/.gvfs.