How to work with a tape drive?

Question

Iron

Hello everyone, the question for experienced system administrators may, of course, seem silly, but still, everything happens for the first time, as in this case, my meeting with a tape drive, so please don’t scold me much, the essence of the question is that I encountered a tape drive for the first time, from HP, commercials 5-8 and years ago release, and questions arose:
- How to first check what is generally recorded on it?
- How to organize recording on tape? Those. How can you write to it both scheduled backups of data and individual files?
- How is everything recorded from the media then read if necessary?
The IP address of the media and the admin login / password are known - I go through the browser via IP, I can view a bunch of information about the state of the drive, but I don’t see anything related to the organization of reading and writing data, the IP address of the drive as a target drive for saving data is also useless

Answer 1

And in what operating system? If in Linux (and not only) - https://system-admins.ru/15-poleznye-linux-komand-...