On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 03:29:16PM -0500, Jason wrote:
> I've been experimenting with tar. Let's say I decide to use tar and
> forget about using rsync for mails, what would be some good options to 
> use to only update the archive with new files? I have tried:
> 
> tar uGvf ~/Main/mail.tar /path/to/maildir
> 
> but it seems every time it is run it just adds copies of everything to
> the archive again, instead of just what was added since last time.

Have you tried out 'zip -u'?

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