Alright.. Consider this:
mkdir test && cd test
touch mytest
ln -s mytest mytest2
ln -h mytest mytest2
Now scp that test dir to another machine... See what you end up with.. 3 copies of the same file and no more symlinks.
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Alright.. Consider this:
mkdir test && cd test
touch mytest
ln -s mytest mytest2
ln -h mytest mytest2
Now scp that test dir to another machine... See what you end up with.. 3 copies of the same file and no more symlinks.
If you wanna backup across the net using SSH (course assuming /etc as the source to backup and bkuphost is destination hostname or IP):
tar zvcf - /etc | ssh bkuphost "cat > destfile.tgz"
Another thing you could do is replace the destfile.tgz with /dev/tape to backup to tape.