>>> My intuition is that there are things mounted and that ssh can not resolve 
>>> mounted stuff, but I'm not sure of anything. 

I've never tried to backup root before, but my guess would be that you'd need 
to exclude: 

/proc 
/dev 
/sys
/run


Doug

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