The tar is stops if it cannot read some files other owner and mode 0x400: tar: Can't open `.ftpquota': Permission denied tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors On previous OS version the archive was created successfuly thouth errors. # tar --version bsdtar 3.2.1 - libarchive 3.2.1 zlib/1.2.8 liblzma/5.2.2 bz2lib/1.0.6