copy mail files - symbolic links

[platinum1]

I am trying to copy the mail files of a remote 10.5.8 Xserve, in order to move the data to a 10.8.x server. The mail database resides in /var/imap/. The mail store resides in /var/spool/imap/. Both of these directories are symbolic links. How do I synchronize these directories (behind symbolic links) with a remote disk?

[superflexible]

You need to find out what the destination of the symbolic links is and create one or two profiles to back up the original folders.