Tape Archiving

Basic question from a newbie here.

Looking for direction on how to write tar balls to a actual tape
drive. I'm actually doing this in OS X but don't want to use our
backup software. I want the tapes to not be proprietary so I'd like
to do it through command line but I'm very new to Linux and don't know
how to access the tape drive device.

I know how to write tar files but haven't done the hardware side of
it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Jason
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