I did some test. It works for me as below:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/test> tar uf test.tar *.jpg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/test> tar tvf test.tar
-rwxr--r-- toshi/users  171936 2005-04-09 19:13:23 04092005.jpg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/test> ls -l
total 528
-rwxr--r-- 1 toshi users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13 04092005.jpg
-rwxr--r-- 1 toshi users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13 add1.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 toshi users 174080 2007-01-21 14:44 test.tar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/test> tar uf test.tar *.jpg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/test> tar tvf test.tar
-rwxr--r-- toshi/users  171936 2005-04-09 19:13:23 04092005.jpg
-rwxr--r-- toshi/users  171936 2005-04-09 19:13:23 add1.jpg

Toshi

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 14:43 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> Okay, here's what I finally came up with
> 
> cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures
> gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar
> 
> Seems to work, but I can't get the incremental backup feature.  Any
> suggestions?

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