[plug] Backups

[Garth Atkinson]

"Earnshaw, Mike" wrote:
> 
> 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
try:
tar -czf /dev/st0 /mnt/cad