You should not remove the environment setting (/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C ) as this is important for backuppc to understand the output of tar, if the system language is not English.
In localhost.pl you should have: $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName' . ' --totals'; Otherwise, if your systems default language is not English, backuppc will not understand what tar is saying in your language and you will see an error like: Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /etc --totals . full backup started for directory /etc Xfer PIDs are now 11679,11678 [ skipped 2977 lines ] Gesamtzahl geschriebener Bytes: 10465280 (10MiB, 2,7MiB/s) [ skipped 240 lines ] tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 2828 filesExist, 7357656 sizeExist, 2282752 sizeExistComp, 2877 filesTotal, 8329812 sizeTotal Got fatal error during xfer (Gesamtzahl geschriebener Bytes: 10465280 (10MiB, 2,7MiB/s)) Backup aborted (Gesamtzahl geschriebener Bytes: 10465280 (10MiB, 2,7MiB/s)) Saving this as a partial backup -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497732 Title: backuppc errors: "Tar exited with error 512 ()" due to read permission failures To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backuppc/+bug/497732/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs