Backup to remote tape?

[Neal D. Becker]

OK, basic question here.  I need to backup a machine to a remote tape drive. 
Back in the day, you could use rmt or rsh.  Now rsh is deprecated, and ssh
is the thing.

I probably can get tar over ssh to work, but I don't think it makes a lot of
sense to encrypt everything (this is on my private home network).  It used
to be possible to select "none" as an ssh cypher, but I believe that option
has been removed.  IMHO that was a mistake.

Anyway, any suggestions?