On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 09:23:33AM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote: > 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'?
Thank you for that suggestion; it does almost what I want. And 'zip -FS' suits my wishes even better - deletes any files from the archive that no longer exist in the file system. Thanks to everyone for your input! > > -- > Mark H. Wood > Lead Technology Analyst > > University Library > Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis > 755 W. Michigan Street > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > 317-274-0749 > www.ulib.iupui.edu -- Jason
