Directly reading a LTO tape drive

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On our server (M$ 2003) is it possible to directly read our LTO 4 tape drive and copy the entire ntbackup created bkf file on it to an external hard disk?

(Is the tape backup even stored on a tape as a bkf file, I’m going off when we only used external usb HD’s.)

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