The rmt utility provides remote access to tape devices for programs like dump (a filesystem backup program), restore (a program for restoring files from a backup) and tar (an archiving program).
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 jui 22 09:43 /etc/rmt -> ../sbin/rmt-dump -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9848 jui 22 09:43 /sbin/rmt-dump drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 jui 22 09:43 /usr/share/doc/rmt-0.4b37 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1863 mar 30 2003 /usr/share/doc/rmt-0.4b37/COPYRIGHT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3380 jui 22 09:43 /usr/share/man/man8/rmt.8.bz2