Tbackup

One of the best programs for handling tape cartridges!

Tbackup is a user friendly, flexible and powerful tape backup program.
Here you are some of its characteristics:

It keeps an index for storing easily and safely multiple archives on a tape.
It has both a menu-driven user-friendly interface for interactive use and a flexible command line interface for use in scripts and automatic maintenance.
It handles multi-volume archives (even if the volumes have different lengths, and span on partially used cartridges).
It can back-up from streams, so that you can tar a group of files, compress them with your favourite program, crypt them and save them to a tape with a single command line, or you can redirect your printouts to the tape.
The archives can be retrieved even WITHOUT Tbackup.