diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 5b517a76cd86..e0b4d77c15ea 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@
   rasendubi = "Alexey Shmalko <rasen.dubi@gmail.com>";
   raskin = "Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru>";
   redbaron = "Maxim Ivanov <ivanov.maxim@gmail.com>";
+  redvers = "Redvers Davies <red@infect.me>";
   refnil = "Martin Lavoie <broemartino@gmail.com>";
   relrod = "Ricky Elrod <ricky@elrod.me>";
   renzo = "Renzo Carbonara <renzocarbonara@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/backup/mtx/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/backup/mtx/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bc1f584f1c02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/backup/mtx/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "mtx-1.3.12";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gentoo/distfiles/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0261c5e90b98b6138cd23dadecbc7bc6e2830235145ed2740290e1f35672d843";
+  };
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Media Changer Tools";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The mtx command controls single or multi-drive SCSI media changers such as
+      tape changers, autoloaders, tape libraries, or optical media jukeboxes. It
+      can also be used with media changers that use the 'ATTACHED' API, presuming
+      that they properly report the MChanger bit as required by the SCSI T-10 SMC
+      specification.
+    '';
+    homepage = https://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx/;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.redvers ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b4c4d163390e..adb414da13ce 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2501,6 +2501,8 @@ in
 
   mtr = callPackage ../tools/networking/mtr {};
 
+  mtx = callPackage ../tools/backup/mtx {};
+
   multitran = recurseIntoAttrs (let callPackage = newScope pkgs.multitran; in rec {
     multitrandata = callPackage ../tools/text/multitran/data { };