I made a series of lto4 tapes to back up files on a larger drive. Each tape was written with tar -cvp \\ \--blocking-factor=2048 \\ \--no-recursion \\ \--files-from="$BATCH\_LIST" \\ \-f - \\ 2>>"$LOG\_FILE" \\ | mbuffer --tapeaware -m 4G -L -P 80 -o…