diff --git a/localdump.sh b/localdump.sh
index 62412b8024a2f7d01bb22e6aa254d4f654dfbba4..ca336a68cd4084a87c7ca9354e53598cf8fdbf99 100755
--- a/localdump.sh
+++ b/localdump.sh
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@
             color.echo "error" "FATAL ERROR: directory ${BACKUP_TARGETDIR} was not created"
             exit 1
         fi
+        if ! chmod 0700 "${BACKUP_TARGETDIR}"; then
+            color.echo "error" "FATAL ERROR: permissions could not be set for ${BACKUP_TARGETDIR}."
+            exit 1
+        fi
     }
 
 
diff --git a/plugins/localdump/couchdb2.sh b/plugins/localdump/couchdb2.sh
index ee352ce2beb18afd69cf402eaa926c8a4d277106..ddc5a28aa6dae6363d1f6f7487ed9107aaea527c 100755
--- a/plugins/localdump/couchdb2.sh
+++ b/plugins/localdump/couchdb2.sh
@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ function _doBackupOfSingleInstance(){
     for _dir in "${ARCHIVE_DIR}"      "${ARCHIVE_DIR}/seq"  "${ARCHIVE_DIR}/security" \
                 "${ARCHIVE_DIR2}"     "${ARCHIVE_DIR2}/seq" "${ARCHIVE_DIR2}/security"
     do
-    test -d "$_dir" || (echo "creating $_dir" ; mkdir -p "$_dir" )
+        test -d "$_dir" || (echo "creating $_dir" ; mkdir -p "$_dir" )
+        chmod 0700 "$_dir"
     done
 
     local iChunksize=100