There are a few clues here that may help indicate what's wrong; I assume
you've tried it from the command line?  What were the results?

> Hi, since some time I cannot make full backups anymore of one of my PC's
> using tar over ssh. Could not find any reference on the mailing lists to
> this type of error.
> I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 on a debian system. This error appeared after a
> long time of stable performance. Backing up another PC through smb does
> not
> generate errors, nor does the backup of localhost.
> Could anyone help me getting out?
> Thx
>
> The error log shows:
>
> Running: ssh -t -l backuppc xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx sudo LANGUAGE=EN /bin/tar
> --ignore-failed-read -c -v -f - -C / --totals --exclude=.Cache/
> --exclude=.cache/ --exclude=Cache/ --exclude=cache/
> --exclude=lost+found ./home/www ./home/mysql ./home/mike/bin
> ./home/mike/Dropbox ./home/mike/werk ./etc ./varfull backup started
> for directory /
> Xfer PIDs are now 5551,5550
> [ skipped 162019 lines ]
> tarExtract: Unable to open
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/new/f%2f/fhome/fmike/fDropbox/fMYSTIC-PAF/fmystic_paf/fbackup/f20111009/fjscripts/ftiny_mce/fthemes/fadvanced/fdocs/fen
> for writing

Start with what's going on with this file.  Is it named in a character set
different from your localization settings?  Is there something else
unusual about this file?  Are your running out of disk space?

> tarExtract: Botch, no matches on
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/new/f%2f/fhome/fmike/fDropbox/fMYSTIC-PAF/fmystic_paf/fbackup/f20111009/fjscripts/ftiny_mce/fthemes/fadvanced/fdocs/fen

Generally, when I see this, it's a character set issue.  Your results may
vary, of course.  I'll note that if you're sharing Dropbox files across
platforms and language using different localization settings, it's pretty
easy to generate filenames that give fits to language settings for which
they're not valid.

> (2589c08c50f7fc2a7eed1f40980d5729)
> [ skipped 1 lines ]
> .....
> [ skipped 1 lines ]
> tarExtract: Unable to open
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/new/f%2f/fhome/fmike/fwerk/fsystem/fTransformer/fandroid-sdk-linux/fadd-ons/faddon-google_tv_addon-google_inc_-12/fi
> for writing
> tarExtract: Botch, no matches on
> /var/lib/backuppc/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/new/f%2f/fhome/fmike/fwerk/fsystem/fTransformer/fandroid-sdk-linux/fadd-ons/faddon-google_tv_addon-google_inc_-12/fi
> (c024a7c0b17076e323d4c052415840fd)
> [ skipped 1 lines ]
> tarExtract: Unable to open
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/new/f%2f/fhome/fmike/fwerk/fsystem/fTransformer/fandroid-sdk-linux/fadd-ons/faddon-google_tv_addon-google_inc_-12/fi
> for writing after link fail
> [ skipped 5 lines ]
> Tar exited with error 36096 () status
> Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 36096 () status)
> Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 36096 () status)
> Saving this as a partial backup, replacing the prior one (got 0 and
> 164358 files versus 0)

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