I met with the same issue in 16.04.1 (amd64). Tested several 'tar' archives (namely tar.7z and tar.gz) - none of them stored backup files. Maybe some problem with generation of the lists of files for archiving? '7z' and 'zip' archives do save backup files, but it seems that they rely on 'p7zip-full' package which provides 7-Zip backend for the File Roller. Until I installed this package 'zip' archives were also losing backup files. In my older system which is 12.04LTS (i386) all the mentioned archive types properly store backup files.
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