Archived Mail Boxes: what gets saved

I'm archiving the family's mailboxes to protect against hard drive disasters, and I've noticed that the more recent archives are smaller than some of the older ones. I usually perform each archive into a unique, dated folder. Am I better archiving the mailboxes into the same folder, so they'll be restored in their entirety should the need arise?

Hey Rob, I'd like to tag on to your post and add a question (hope you don't mind)... Does the archive command in mail also archive the attachments associated with each and every email?, pics etc...?
Thanks,
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