You can see the number of files on the tape using:
tar -tvf /dev/rmt0 | wc -l
The | is a 'pipe' and is located as the shift of the \ key on my keyboard. wc -l gives a count of the lines produced by the tar command. Perhaps someone can help with the total size part?
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