IOSCSITape provides a typical Unix-like tape driver for Mac OS X. This allows for standard utilities like tar to directly read and write to tape. OSCSITape provides a typical Unix-like character device file (e.g. /dev/rst0) with an accompanying tool (mt) for tape drive manipulation on Mac OS X. IOSCSITape aims to bring the capability of running standard tools like tar and dd as well as popular tools like Amanda and Bacula to Mac OS X.
