Reading a tape drive

[bcmrocks]

I have an external tape drive installed on a UNIX server system. How I can I read the tape drive ?

I use the "tar" command but it doesn't seem to be of any help.

[sun_os]

What is the message you can on terminal , it may be syntax error or path is incorrect

You can try to run the command

tar cvf /dev/xxxx  /mount point

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