diff --git a/imagebuildah/chroot_symlink_linux.go b/imagebuildah/chroot_symlink_linux.go
index 2fb10ab8323..a6d3b4c8f9b 100644
--- a/imagebuildah/chroot_symlink_linux.go
+++ b/imagebuildah/chroot_symlink_linux.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/reexec"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
@@ -14,11 +15,13 @@ import (
 
 const (
 	symlinkChrootedCommand = "chrootsymlinks-resolve"
+	symlinkModifiedTime    = "modtimesymlinks-resolve"
 	maxSymlinksResolved    = 40
 )
 
 func init() {
 	reexec.Register(symlinkChrootedCommand, resolveChrootedSymlinks)
+	reexec.Register(symlinkModifiedTime, resolveSymlinkTimeModified)
 }
 
 // resolveSymlink uses a child subprocess to resolve any symlinks in filename
@@ -68,6 +71,118 @@ func resolveChrootedSymlinks() {
 	os.Exit(status)
 }
 
+// main() for grandparent subprocess.  Its main job is to shuttle stdio back
+// and forth, managing a pseudo-terminal if we want one, for our child, the
+// parent subprocess.
+func resolveSymlinkTimeModified() {
+	status := 0
+	flag.Parse()
+	if len(flag.Args()) < 1 {
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	// Our first parameter is the directory to chroot into.
+	if err := unix.Chdir(flag.Arg(0)); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "chdir(): %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	if err := unix.Chroot(flag.Arg(0)); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "chroot(): %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	// Our second parameter is the path name to evaluate for symbolic links.
+	// Our third parameter is the time the cached intermediate image was created.
+	// We check whether the modified time of the filepath we provide is after the time the cached image was created.
+	timeIsGreater, err := modTimeIsGreater(flag.Arg(0), flag.Arg(1), flag.Arg(2))
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error checking if modified time of resolved symbolic link is greater: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stdout.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%v", timeIsGreater)); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error writing string to stdout: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	os.Exit(status)
+}
+
+// resolveModifiedTime (in the grandparent process) checks filename for any symlinks,
+// resolves it and compares the modified time of the file with historyTime, which is
+// the creation time of the cached image. It returns true if filename was modified after
+// historyTime, otherwise returns false.
+func resolveModifiedTime(rootdir, filename, historyTime string) (bool, error) {
+	// The child process expects a chroot and one path that
+	// will be consulted relative to the chroot directory and evaluated
+	// for any symbolic links present.
+	cmd := reexec.Command(symlinkModifiedTime, rootdir, filename, historyTime)
+	output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, errors.Wrapf(err, string(output))
+	}
+	// Hand back true/false depending on in the file was modified after the caches image was created.
+	return string(output) == "true", nil
+}
+
+// modTimeIsGreater goes through the files added/copied in using the Dockerfile and
+// checks the time stamp (follows symlinks) with the time stamp of when the cached
+// image was created. IT compares the two and returns true if the file was modified
+// after the cached image was created, otherwise it returns false.
+func modTimeIsGreater(rootdir, path string, historyTime string) (bool, error) {
+	var timeIsGreater bool
+
+	// Convert historyTime from string to time.Time for comparison
+	histTime, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339Nano, historyTime)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, errors.Wrapf(err, "error converting string to time.Time %q", historyTime)
+	}
+
+	// Since we are chroot in rootdir, we want a relative path, i.e (path - rootdir)
+	relPath, err := filepath.Rel(rootdir, path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, errors.Wrapf(err, "error making path %q relative to %q", path, rootdir)
+	}
+
+	// Walk the file tree and check the time stamps.
+	err = filepath.Walk(relPath, func(path string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
+		// If using cached images, it is possible for files that are being copied to come from
+		// previous build stages. But if using cached images, then the copied file won't exist
+		// since a container won't have been created for the previous build stage and info will be nil.
+		// In that case just return nil and continue on with using the cached image for the whole build process.
+		if info == nil {
+			return nil
+		}
+		modTime := info.ModTime()
+		if info.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink == os.ModeSymlink {
+			// Evaluate any symlink that occurs to get updated modified information
+			resolvedPath, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(path)
+			if err != nil && os.IsNotExist(err) {
+				return errors.Wrapf(errDanglingSymlink, "%q", path)
+			}
+			if err != nil {
+				return errors.Wrapf(err, "error evaluating symlink %q", path)
+			}
+			fileInfo, err := os.Stat(resolvedPath)
+			if err != nil {
+				return errors.Wrapf(err, "error getting file info %q", resolvedPath)
+			}
+			modTime = fileInfo.ModTime()
+		}
+		if modTime.After(histTime) {
+			timeIsGreater = true
+			return nil
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	if err != nil {
+		// if error is due to dangling symlink, ignore error and return nil
+		if errors.Cause(err) == errDanglingSymlink {
+			return false, nil
+		}
+		return false, errors.Wrapf(err, "error walking file tree %q", path)
+	}
+	return timeIsGreater, err
+}
+
 // getSymbolic link goes through each part of the path and continues resolving symlinks as they appear.
 // Returns what the whole target path for what "path" resolves to.
 func getSymbolicLink(path string) (string, error) {
diff --git a/imagebuildah/errors.go b/imagebuildah/errors.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cf299656bcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/imagebuildah/errors.go
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package imagebuildah
+
+import "errors"
+
+var (
+	errDanglingSymlink = errors.New("error evaluating dangling symlink")
+)
diff --git a/imagebuildah/stage_executor.go b/imagebuildah/stage_executor.go
index 4d2d7054f06..bc589514d45 100644
--- a/imagebuildah/stage_executor.go
+++ b/imagebuildah/stage_executor.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
@@ -1085,13 +1086,83 @@ func (s *StageExecutor) intermediateImageExists(ctx context.Context, currNode *p
 			}
 			// children + currNode is the point of the Dockerfile we are currently at.
 			if s.executor.historyMatches(baseHistory, currNode, history, addedContentDigest) {
-				return image.ID, nil
+				// a COPY or ADD command.
+				filesMatch, err := s.copiedFilesMatch(currNode, history[len(history)-1].Created)
+				if err != nil {
+					return "", errors.Wrapf(err, "error checking if copied files match")
+				}
+				if filesMatch {
+					return image.ID, nil
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
 	return "", nil
 }
 
+// getFilesToCopy goes through node to get all the src files that are copied, added or downloaded.
+// It is possible for the Dockerfile to have src as hom*, which means all files that have hom as a prefix.
+// Another format is hom?.txt, which means all files that have that name format with the ? replaced by another character.
+func (s *StageExecutor) getFilesToCopy(node *parser.Node) ([]string, error) {
+	currNode := node.Next
+	var src []string
+	for currNode.Next != nil {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(currNode.Value, "http://") || strings.HasPrefix(currNode.Value, "https://") {
+			src = append(src, currNode.Value)
+			currNode = currNode.Next
+			continue
+		}
+		matches, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(s.copyFrom, currNode.Value))
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "error finding match for pattern %q", currNode.Value)
+		}
+		src = append(src, matches...)
+		currNode = currNode.Next
+	}
+	return src, nil
+}
+
+// copiedFilesMatch checks to see if the node instruction is a COPY or ADD.
+// If it is either of those two it checks the timestamps on all the files copied/added
+// by the dockerfile. If the host version has a time stamp greater than the time stamp
+// of the build, the build will not use the cached version and will rebuild.
+func (s *StageExecutor) copiedFilesMatch(node *parser.Node, historyTime *time.Time) (bool, error) {
+	if node.Value != "add" && node.Value != "copy" {
+		return true, nil
+	}
+
+	src, err := s.getFilesToCopy(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	for _, item := range src {
+		// for urls, check the Last-Modified field in the header.
+		if strings.HasPrefix(item, "http://") || strings.HasPrefix(item, "https://") {
+			urlContentNew, err := urlContentModified(item, historyTime)
+			if err != nil {
+				return false, err
+			}
+			if urlContentNew {
+				return false, nil
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		// Walks the file tree for local files and uses chroot to ensure we don't escape out of the allowed path
+		// when resolving any symlinks.
+		// Change the time format to ensure we don't run into a parsing error when converting again from string
+		// to time.Time. It is a known Go issue that the conversions cause errors sometimes, so specifying a particular
+		// time format here when converting to a string.
+		timeIsGreater, err := resolveModifiedTime(s.copyFrom, item, historyTime.Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
+		if err != nil {
+			return false, errors.Wrapf(err, "error resolving symlinks and comparing modified times: %q", item)
+		}
+		if timeIsGreater {
+			return false, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return true, nil
+}
+
 // commit writes the container's contents to an image, using a passed-in tag as
 // the name if there is one, generating a unique ID-based one otherwise.
 func (s *StageExecutor) commit(ctx context.Context, ib *imagebuilder.Builder, createdBy string, emptyLayer bool, output string) (string, reference.Canonical, error) {
@@ -1215,3 +1286,23 @@ func (s *StageExecutor) EnsureContainerPath(path string) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// urlContentModified sends a get request to the url and checks if the header has a value in
+// Last-Modified, and if it does compares the time stamp to that of the history of the cached image.
+// returns true if there is no Last-Modified value in the header.
+func urlContentModified(url string, historyTime *time.Time) (bool, error) {
+	resp, err := http.Get(url)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, errors.Wrapf(err, "error getting %q", url)
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	if lastModified := resp.Header.Get("Last-Modified"); lastModified != "" {
+		lastModifiedTime, err := time.Parse(time.RFC1123, lastModified)
+		if err != nil {
+			return false, errors.Wrapf(err, "error parsing time for %q", url)
+		}
+		return lastModifiedTime.After(*historyTime), nil
+	}
+	logrus.Debugf("Response header did not have Last-Modified %q, will rebuild.", url)
+	return true, nil
+}
diff --git a/tests/bud.bats b/tests/bud.bats
index 3bd482e7915..7b2abf5f2d8 100644
--- a/tests/bud.bats
+++ b/tests/bud.bats
@@ -1797,3 +1797,29 @@ load helpers
   buildah rm --all
   buildah rmi --all --force
 }
+
+@test "bud containerfile with tar archive in copy" {
+  # First check to verify cache is used if the tar file does not change
+  target=copy-archive
+  date>bud/${target}/test; tar cJf - bud/${target}/test > bud/${target}/test.tar.xz
+  run_buildah bud --signature-policy ${TESTSDIR}/policy.json --layers -t ${target} ${TESTSDIR}/bud/${target}
+  expect_output --substring "COMMIT copy-archive"
+
+  run_buildah bud --signature-policy ${TESTSDIR}/policy.json --layers -t ${target} ${TESTSDIR}/bud/${target}
+  expect_output --substring " Using cache"
+  expect_output --substring "COMMIT copy-archive"
+
+  # Now test that we do NOT use cache if the tar file changes
+  date>bud/${target}/test; tar cJf - bud/${target}/test > bud/${target}/test.tar.xz
+  run_buildah bud --signature-policy ${TESTSDIR}/policy.json --layers -t ${target} ${TESTSDIR}/bud/${target}
+  expect_output --substring "COMMIT copy-archive"
+
+  date>bud/${target}/test; tar cJf - bud/${target}/test > bud/${target}/test.tar.xz
+  run_buildah bud --signature-policy ${TESTSDIR}/policy.json --layers -t ${target} ${TESTSDIR}/bud/${target}
+  if [[ "$output" =~ " Using cache" ]]; then
+      is "$output" "[no instance of 'Using cache']" "no cache used"
+  fi
+  expect_output --substring "COMMIT copy-archive"
+
+  rm bud/${target}/test*
+}