Comment 84 for bug 34813

Unable to reproduce with gedit 2.24.2-0ubuntu1 and sshfs to an rsync.net account. Saving seems to work fine, regardless of whether the backup before saving option is selected or not.

The fix that Brent mentions appears to be for a previous version of gedit from comment #5 in the gnome bug, which modifies how files are saved. gedit 2.42 has two mechanisms to save files - local and gio (ie. sshfs/cifs) - presumably to address this issue - so that patch will no longer work (it would apply to local saves, not remote saves).