Okay I'm now getting a bunch of "operation not permitted" errors despite the fact that I'm root and using Sudo
you shouldn't need to use sudo if you are root...
I still get the errors sudo or no sudo
Edit:
tar: ./var/tmp: Cannot create symlink to `../tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/spool: Cannot create symlink to `../tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/log: Cannot create symlink to `../tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/lib/pcmcia: Cannot create symlink to `../../tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/lib/misc: Cannot create symlink to `../../tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/lib/dbus: Cannot create symlink to `/tmp/dbus': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/lib/dhcp: Cannot create symlink to `/tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/run: Cannot create symlink to `../tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/lock: Cannot create symlink to `../tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./var/cache: Cannot create symlink to `../tmp': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/mtab: Cannot create symlink to `/proc/mounts': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/80-delicious.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-unifont.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/51-local.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-user.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-latin.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/45-latin.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/40-nonlatin.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./etc/resolv.conf: Cannot create symlink to `../tmp/resolv.conf': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/inetd: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/setlogcons: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/rdate: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/loadfont: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/fdformat: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/deluser: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/dnsd: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/readprofile: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/nandwrite: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/addgroup: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/killall5: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/adduser: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/nanddump: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/arping: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/ether-wake: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/crond: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/chroot: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/sbin/delgroup: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/xz: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/sort: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/tee: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/traceroute: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/renice: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/less: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/find: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/setsid: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/tftp: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/uudecode: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/xargs: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/microcom: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/nslookup: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/wc: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/logname: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/telnet: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/who: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/unzip: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/md5sum: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/uniq: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/unxz: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/clear: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/[: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/lsof: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/lzma: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/lspci: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/cut: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/time: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/whoami: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/mesg: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/diff: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/fuser: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/xzcat: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/[[: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/top: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/cmp: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/ipcrm: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/tty: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/head: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/printf: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/sha512sum: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/last: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/dos2unix: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/awk: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/chrt: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/vlock: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/unlzma: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/sha256sum: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/sha1sum: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/tail: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/od: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/reset: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/expr: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/lzcat: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/eject: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/yes: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/patch: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/hexdump: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/mkfifo: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/id: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/uptime: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/hostid: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/cksum: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/dc: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/readlink: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/ipcs: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/dirname: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/passwd: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/killall: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/crontab: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/which: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/free: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/unix2dos: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/uuencode: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/ar: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/tr: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/fold: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/realpath: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/sha3sum: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/test: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/strings: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/logger: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/du: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/install: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/nohup: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/env: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/basename: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/bin/seq: Cannot create symlink to `../../bin/busybox': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/lib/terminfo: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/terminfo': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/lib/libuuid.so: Cannot create symlink to `../../lib/libuuid.so.1.3.0': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/lib/libblkid.so: Cannot create symlink to `../../lib/libblkid.so.1.1.0': Operation not permitted
tar: ./usr/lib/X11/app-defaults: Cannot create symlink to `../../../etc/X11/app-defaults': Operation not permitted
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors