UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Can someone please let me have a nice shell script to:

1) Identify all folders/sub-folders/files older than 365 days with the exception of one or two folders e.g. named - "common" or "test"
2) Archive (1) above for example in a TAR file
3) Delete all in (1) above
and that's it...
4) In case of some failure, restore (1) above to its original state.

Please note, I tried various Unix commands e.g. find . -mtime +365 -type d ! -name common -exec rm -r {} \;

Please note the using TAR -xvf i.e. to restore the files changes the timestamp of the folders to current timestamp, I want these to be restored back to the original timestamp.

Regards.

cpio will restore the original timestamp:

Code:

ant:/home/vbe $ ll zi*

ziza:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x   3 vbe        bin             96 Dec  3 17:27 001

zizi:
total 0
ant:/home/vbe $ ll -ld zi*
drwxrwxr-x   3 vbe        bin             96 Dec  3 17:27 ziza
drwxrwxr-x   2 vbe        bin             96 Dec  3 19:23 zizi
ant:/home/vbe $ find  ziza -depth|cpio -pduml zizi
0 blocks
ant:/home/vbe $ cd zizi;ll
total 0
drwxrwxr-x   3 vbe        bin             96 Dec  3 17:27 ziza
ant:/home/vbe/zizi $ ll ziza/*
total 0
drwxrwxr-x   3 vbe        bin             96 Dec  3 17:27 002
ant:/home/vbe/zizi $ ll ziza
total 0
drwxrwxr-x   3 vbe        bin             96 Dec  3 17:27 001
ant:/home/vbe/zizi $