<html> Hi Lets say I have two directories, /home/p1 and home/p2 There is a file /home/p1/file and then one /home/p2/lnfile -> /home/p1/file (in other words I did ln -s /home/p1/file /home/p2/lnfile) if I cd /home and do a tar -zcvf tar.tz p1 p2 or scp -r p1 p2 10.0.0.20: then lnfile is no longer a symbolic link of file, but rather a duplicate. Is there anyway with tar and scp to preserver the link, symbolic or hard? You would have to scp/cp/tar enough so that the link would actually point to something. Tony </html>