backing up symlinks

[Duane Attaway]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Rob Becker wrote:

> I'm playing with optimizing the startup scripts on an old redhat box.
> In order to avoid completely monkeying things up, I would like to back
> up the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d directory prior to making changes.  I've read the
> man pages on both cp and ln and I'm coming up short regarding backing up
> the symlinks in this directory.  Is there a way to create symlinks with
> the same names that point to the same files as the original symlinks?  I
> know I can do it manually, but I'd prefer to use the * wildcard to get
> it all done in one shot if possible.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Am I
> thinking about this the wrong way?  Please enlighten me if I am missing
> an obvious solution.
> Thanks.
> Rob

I use:

cp -aR

Does that work?