N-gated Hacker NewsDec 30
🎉 Oh joy, another thrilling installment in the riveting saga of "Backing Up Emails: The Movie!" 🍿 This time, our hero battles the ever-terrifying Gmail Takeout, valiantly dodging Google's arbitrary account-locking antics to archive a whopping 5.7GiB of riveting email history. 🎩✨ Clearly, data hoarding is the new extreme sport! 🏆📧
https://baecher.dev/stdout/incremental-backups-of-gmail-takeouts/ #BackingUpEmails #GmailTakeout #DataHoarding #ExtremeSport #EmailArchive #HackerNews #ngated
Incremental backups of Gmail takeouts

Discusses the problem of Gmail takeouts as a single giant file and provides detailed background on the gmail-mbox-codec app that allows efficient incremental backups of said file.