You have so many possibilities... and this number will grow with time.

• rsync and tar are two consolidated old style ways to do backup. You can do remotely your tar file(s), and backup it (them) locally. You can do even an incremental backup.
  Moreover and more cosy, it exists a wide number of GUI based on them and on SSH. Some opensources too.

• You can search for a cross-platform tool. If cross platform it is supposed to naturally deal with symbolic links. Get a look e.g. here

• You can search for a remote backup utility on internet. Here the Open Source Storage: 49 Tools for Backup and Recovery dated 2014 but still with more then needed links. Amanda (the first of the list in alphabetic order) seems to use tar and so to understand symbolic links.

• An exotic overkill can be a virtual machine with a minimal Linux installation with rsync and ssh packages and you will have your local emulated machine with real Linux tools... (and then you can use again rsync :) ).

• From rsync.net they propose to use windows rsync , or Windows Backup Agent or the rsync Windows Integration

You have so many possibilities... and this number will grow with time.

• rsync and tar are two consolidated old style ways to do backup. You can do remotely your tar file(s), and backup it (them) locally. You can do even an incremental backup.
  Moreover and more cosy, it exists a wide number of GUI based on them and on SSH. Some opensources too.

• You can search for a cross-platform tool. If cross platform it is supposed to naturally deal with symbolic links. Get a look e.g. here

• You can search for a remote backup utility on internet. Here the Open Source Storage: 49 Tools for Backup and Recovery dated 2014 but still with more then needed links. Amanda (the first of the list in alphabetic order) seems to use tar and so to understand symbolic links.

• An exotic overkill can be a virtual machine with a minimal Linux installation with rsync and ssh packages and you will have your local emulated machine with real Linux tools... (and then you can use again rsync :) ).

• From rsync.net they propose to use windows rsync , or Windows Backup Agent or the rsync Windows Integration

• Among the others you can try use winscp, I've to check if it works properly with symbolic link as it seems to me.