diff --git a/libpod/container_internal.go b/libpod/container_internal.go
index c37d6be2b1..ee6a7b6cc2 100644
--- a/libpod/container_internal.go
+++ b/libpod/container_internal.go
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/containers/podman/v4/pkg/systemd/notifyproxy"
 	"github.com/containers/podman/v4/pkg/util"
 	"github.com/containers/storage"
-	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/archive"
+	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/chrootarchive"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/lockfile"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/mount"
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ func (c *Container) export(out io.Writer) error {
 		}()
 	}
 
-	input, err := archive.Tar(mountPoint, archive.Uncompressed)
+	input, err := chrootarchive.Tar(mountPoint, nil, mountPoint)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("reading container directory %q: %w", c.ID(), err)
 	}
diff --git a/utils/utils.go b/utils/utils.go
index f9f96f2835..81b77e544a 100644
--- a/utils/utils.go
+++ b/utils/utils.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/containers/common/pkg/cgroups"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/archive"
+	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/chrootarchive"
 	"github.com/godbus/dbus/v5"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 )
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ func CreateTarFromSrc(source string, dest string) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("could not create tarball file '%s': %w", dest, err)
 	}
 	defer file.Close()
-	return TarToFilesystem(source, file)
+	return TarChrootToFilesystem(source, file)
 }
 
 // TarToFilesystem creates a tarball from source and writes to an os.file
@@ -87,6 +88,28 @@ func Tar(source string) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 	return archive.Tar(source, archive.Uncompressed)
 }
 
+// TarChrootToFilesystem creates a tarball from source and writes to an os.file
+// provided while chrooted to the source.
+func TarChrootToFilesystem(source string, tarball *os.File) error {
+	tb, err := TarWithChroot(source)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = io.Copy(tarball, tb)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	logrus.Debugf("wrote tarball file %s", tarball.Name())
+	return nil
+}
+
+// TarWithChroot creates a tarball from source and returns a readcloser of it
+// while chrooted to the source.
+func TarWithChroot(source string) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
+	logrus.Debugf("creating tarball of %s", source)
+	return chrootarchive.Tar(source, nil, source)
+}
+
 // RemoveScientificNotationFromFloat returns a float without any
 // scientific notation if the number has any.
 // golang does not handle conversion of float64s that have scientific