In order to mount locally a remote archive or an entire repository as a FUSE filesystem, it is required to load fuse module: # kldload fuse To load the module at boot time, add fuse_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf by running: sysrc fuse_load="YES" Also, if you plan to mount borg repositories as non root user, you need to run # sysctl vfs.usermount=1 and add the line vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf to ensure the setting is loaded at boot time.