diff --git a/src/org/dclermonte/siba/model/SibaManager.java b/src/org/dclermonte/siba/model/SibaManager.java
index 32ef090..c690a28 100644
--- a/src/org/dclermonte/siba/model/SibaManager.java
+++ b/src/org/dclermonte/siba/model/SibaManager.java
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ public class SibaManager
 		String outputFileNameWithoutExtension = fileToSave.getName() + "-" + textDate;
 
 		result = new File(target + "/" + outputFileNameWithoutExtension + ".tgz");
-
 		OutputStream gzipOutputStream = new GzipCompressorOutputStream(
 				new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(result)));
 		TarArchiveOutputStream out = new TarArchiveOutputStream(gzipOutputStream);
@@ -137,7 +136,19 @@ public class SibaManager
 
 			if (file.isDirectory())
 			{
-				directoryToSave(file, outputStream, pathLength);
+				if (file.listFiles().length == 0)
+				{
+					TarArchiveEntry tarArchiveEntry = new TarArchiveEntry(file);
+					String pathPartiel = file.getPath().substring(pathLength);
+					tarArchiveEntry.setName(pathPartiel);
+					outputStream.putArchiveEntry(tarArchiveEntry);
+					outputStream.closeArchiveEntry();
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					directoryToSave(file, outputStream, pathLength);
+				}
+
 			}
 			else
 			{
diff --git a/test/org/dclermonte/siba/model/SibaManagerTest.java b/test/org/dclermonte/siba/model/SibaManagerTest.java
index b06fabe..7fcc67b 100644
--- a/test/org/dclermonte/siba/model/SibaManagerTest.java
+++ b/test/org/dclermonte/siba/model/SibaManagerTest.java
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ public class SibaManagerTest
 	public void backupTest02() throws ArchiveException, IOException, SibaNullException
 	{
 		String md5LineSource = "qslfjqmlsfjmqlsjfqmlsjfsjf mqlsfjmljdf";
-		File target = SibaManager.backup(new File("../data/simplestuff"), new File("../tmp/"));
-
+		File target = SibaManager.backup(new File("../data/simplestuff"), new File("/home/papou/tmp"));
+		System.out.println(target.getName());
 		// Load md5 file.
 		String encoding = null;
 		String md5LineTarget = FileUtils.readFileToString(target, encoding);