mbuffer to LTO tape over network

mbuffer.md

On the tape server

Using 5567 as an example TCP port

sudo mbuffer -I 5567 -m 8G -P 80 -s 262144 -o /dev/nst0

On the file server

This also writes out a plaintext file in the local directory (filelist.txt) logging the files transferred.

sudo tar -cv -b512 --label="myvolume-$(date -uI)" --exclude-backups \
  --exclude="#recycle" --exclude="#snapshot" --exclude=".DS_Store" \
  --exclude="thumbs.db" --exclude="@eaDir" --exclude="$RECYCLE.BIN" \
  -f - /volume1/homes 2> >(tee filelist.txt >&2) | mbuffer -O 192.168.1.100:5567