I may have the same tape drive as you. I find an IBM (made my archive corp) DDS2 scsi tape drive at a ham radio flea market for $10. It works fine thou it is slower than a QIC drive (but holds lots more). I am using tar. To put more than one backup on a tape use the /dev/nst0 device (no rewind when done). To move from one backup set to another use the mt commands EOF and EOT I think. The mt rewind and eject commands work with this drive. If you try to erase the tape, be prepared to wait about 2-3 hours!!!! I just use a video tape bulk tape eraser! I need to write some shell scripts to handle the tape drive, ie: making directories and such. If you put several backup sets on a tape and then had to use tar and mt to find a specific file, it would take quite some time to run DDS is slow. But how else can you get 4GB on a $5 tape cassette?
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