This is almost certainly caused by attempting to backup the /proc
directory (as previously noted). You can test that theory by doing
something like this:
# tar cvf /dev/ht0 / 2> tar.err
Or it might be better to interleave both stdout and stderr:
# tar cvf /dev/ht0 / > tar.log 2>&1
Then take a look at tar.err or tar.log for where the failures lie.
I'd bet that it's happening when you're accessing things in the
/proc directory. Those errors have been getting lost in the stream
of output you normally get from tar (with v at least) and only
the final error is being seen.
If that's the case you'll want to exclude /proc from your
archive, well you'd want to do that anyway.
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