Forgot one comment.

After mt rewind, you have to mt fsf #, where # is a tape file number,
to get to the start of the #'th dump on the tape.

Then if you had followed the suggested reading, that tapefile
contains a file header that must be skipped.  It does no good
to do a skip=1 to the first tape file, that is not a dump file.
It is the tape label file.

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