Hi maintainers of tar,
In the following version: $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.30 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. I backup the following files with symlinks and hardlinks: $ mkdir original $ cd original $ mkdir -p 0/a/b $ touch 0/a/c $ ln -s ../c 0/a/b/c $ touch -d "-1week" -h $(find) $ cp -al 0 1 $ cp -al 0 2 $ find -mtime -1 . $ tar -cf ../backup.tar . $ cd .. And I restore the files from tar: $ mkdir restore $ cd restore $ tar -xf ../backup.tar $ find -mtime -1 . ./1/a/b ./0/a/b $ But, as you can in the find result, tar doesn't preserve the timestamp of certain directories. I think this is a bug. Thank you for your attention!. Regards, Andrew.
