Tar

Back up and restore the contents of tar archives.

Latest v1.1.1 · Sep 2, 2026
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v1.1.1

stable

Fixes the handling of symbolic links and hard links in archives.

Security

  • The target of a hard link in an archive is now resolved within the archive. A hard link pointing outside it, such as ../../etc/shadow, could previously lead a restore to write outside the target directory.

Fixes

  • Symbolic links in an archive are backed up as symbolic links. They were previously backed up as regular files.