I am piping the output from tar to directly to gpg for encryption
using the command below

tar cf - --index-file verbose_output.txt --ignore-failed-read -P --
preserve --show-omitted-dirs \ --exclude-from exclude.lst / | gpg -e
-r backup@key.domain.com > encrypted.tar.gpg

I also want the list of files which is normally displayed on the
screen to be saved into a file for later viewing.

I gather it relates to the way stderr and stdout are handled. I assume
that stdout is what is sent to gpg so where can stderr be piped to.

/voipfc