CPIO with Ubuntu

Hi,
i am new here, and i have a question about cpio.
i have a scsi traban tape drive, and i will restore some files and directories.
Did anybody knows the instructions with cpio?

regards

Harald

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# example ... -i to extract, d to create dirs v to list files being extracted 
# check out the cpio manual on the gnu site
cpio -idv < tapedevice
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