I would like to archive some directories. These directories are contain some softlinks. I should keep these links and files, too.
I didn't found any solution... I tried tar with -h option but it keeps just files, but not links. The simple -cf neither.
Symbolic links are pointers to files in a filesystem. You may want to try to use the --dereference option with tar.
This asks tar to create copies of the data that the symbolic links point to.
Here is the documentation from gnu.org
When `--dereference' (`-h') is used with `--create' (`-c'), tar archives the files symbolic links point to, instead of the links themselves. You need to create the symlinks on the target machine manually in this case.
On the source machine use tar cvhf (or czvhf). when extracting on the target, the files find their way to the right location, if the symlinks exist.
If they do not exist, tar the symlinks separately with tar cvf and extract on the target before extracting the rest of the files, archived with tar cvhf.
tararchives all files including symlinks by default, and-hmakes it archive symlinks' targets instead of the symlinks, so by a process of elimination I guess you want to archive both symlinks and their targets. Is that it?