[plug] Backups

[Earnshaw, Mike]

List,

When I try to tar to a scsi tape with:

tar -czf filename.tar /mnt/cad | /dev/st0 

I receive a Permission denied for dev/st0, yet I am logged in as root
and /dev/st0 has -rw-rw----. I even tried chmod 777 /dev/st0 and also
linking /dev/tape to st0 both with 777.

I am a bit syumped with this. I can create an archive on disk by not
including the pipe command but I would like to send this to tape. I
tried the Backup-HOWTO from the web but it gave errors with the script
(did copy & paste so not my typo) and I ain't good enough to debug the
script yet.

Any pointers please?

Thx

Mike