You'd want to mount the Windows filesystem and then write the tar file onto that filesystem. Something like:
mount -t msdos /dev/<device name of dos drive> /mnt

tar cf /mnt/linux-bk.tar --exclude /mnt /
If you specified the device as the argument to the f option, like you quoted, then you'd overwrite and corrupt the the DOS filesystem.
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