To add to Steve's reply, there is also the caveat that you must not
be multiplexing backup streams onto a tape.  The blocks are interleaved
such that the GNU Tar utility cannot read it.  This also supposes you know
which file on the tape contains the image (unless you are willing to 
list out each file separately).

Good luck,
Hal

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=] can i use the backup on a tape to do a restore?
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