diff --git a/app/src-tauri/src/commands/file_commands.rs b/app/src-tauri/src/commands/file_commands.rs
index 83bc5e7..200b082 100644
--- a/app/src-tauri/src/commands/file_commands.rs
+++ b/app/src-tauri/src/commands/file_commands.rs
@@ -206,8 +206,10 @@ pub async fn download_container_backup(
     // so secrets can't leak through the sanitization fallback.
     // The `--transform` nests the workspace under `workspace/` (parallel to
     // `home-claude/`) so an extracted archive has both clearly labeled instead
-    // of scattering the workspace files into the extraction dir. `flags=r`
-    // scopes the rewrite to member names only, leaving symlink targets intact.
+    // of scattering the workspace files into the extraction dir. `flags=rh`
+    // rewrites regular member names AND hardlink target names (so an intra-
+    // workspace hardlink pair still resolves on extract) while leaving symlink
+    // targets untouched (rewriting those would corrupt relative/absolute links).
     let script = r#"set -e
 STAGE=$(mktemp -d)
 trap 'rm -rf "$STAGE"' EXIT
@@ -225,7 +227,7 @@ if [ -d "$HOME/.claude" ]; then
 fi
 tar czf - --ignore-failed-read \
   --exclude='*/node_modules' --exclude='*/target' \
-  --transform='flags=r;s,^\./,workspace/,' \
+  --transform='flags=rh;s,^\./,workspace/,' \
   -C "$TC_BACKUP_SRC" . \
   -C "$STAGE" home-claude"#;