tape drive

Hello, I'm trying to implement backups on a FreeBSD system of the data it stores (user files, databases, etc.) using an LTO-9 magnetic tape drive... From what I've seen, there are two ways to use this drive: the traditional way with the mt and tar utilities, or the newer LTFS (the tape...

Does anyone have tape drive hardware encryption working on freebsd? I have an HP LTO-5 tape drive. Unencrypted read/writes and toggling compression with mt works, but enabling encryption doesn't. I compiled stenc, which does have ifdef's for freebsd sg, but no matter what I try I get either an...

Some background on my environment and use case: I would like to share my LTO5 tape drive via iSCSI with a server that will be doing backups to tape, but having the tape drive in a more convenient location to switch out tapes. The FreeBSD box is running pfSense and acting as a router (however, I...