As I said, this is a very basic guide with pretty much most if not all commands you will probably execute in your tape drive on a linux environment. Enjoy


Check if tapedrive is online:
mt -f /dev/st0 status

Erase tapedrive:
mt -f /dev/st0 erase

Copy some content to a tapedrive
tar cvf /dev/st0 /content_path/content.archive

List files on a tape
tar tvf /dev/st0

Restore from the tape
tar xvf /dev/st0

Restore an specific archive
tar xvf /dev/st0 /folder/archive.dmp

As I always say, hope this was usefull.

Felipe Cruz Ferrero