Ubuntu: How to restore your files from a tape

  This is just like extracting a regular tar archive:  

tar -xvf /dev/[path to tape] [directory or file to restore]  

e.g.:  

tar -xvf /dev/st0 backups

  This will restore the “backups” file/folder to the current working directory. To check your current directory, you can use:  

pwd

  to make sure that you are restoring your files to the correct location!