> try > tar -xvf /dev/st0/home/mdw1982/.mc/ini home/mdw1982/.mc/ini > heck I Know squat about tar... I bet I am way wrong
That won't work, sorry. Tapes don't have filesystems, and if you just want to back up starting from /home/mdw* just do: tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home/md* If you look at the output of tar (hence the 'v' option) you'll see a list of files, all starting with 'home'. Tar omits the leading '/' (there is an option to change this behavior) by default. When you do the restore, simply cd into the directory (/home/mdw*) and restore it.
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