Tape

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A Tape drive is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on magnetic tape.

Formats

• MTF - Microsoft Tape format. Used by NTBackup (.BKF files are MTF format) and Backup Exec

• tar - Used by unix tar as well as NETBackup

Links

• Microsoft Tape format reader
• MTF Format specification
• Linux MTF tape parsing tool
• [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmtf/ Java Parser for MTF Tape format.