samba - Mar 2004 - Backing-up solution (disk image or tarball to windows server)

At our location, only the windows server has large capacity backup
solutions.

I would like to backup to a smbfs partition.  I?m running Mandrake 9.2 with
Samba 3.

I tried a simple tar ?cvf and it failed as the file size got past 2
Gigabytes.  I know this was an issue with early Unixes.

Is 2 GBytes a file size limit?

Is there a backup solution (commercial or otherwise) that will split the
files into appropriate sizes and store them on a remote smbfs file system.

It would be perfect if it could save a disk image and/or remember links and
all the file permissions.  Any suggestions appreciated.
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Software Engineer
(410)872-0300

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#include <funny_quote>

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Greetings

Sascha

Am Donnerstag, 25. M?rz 2004 15:28 schrieb Dirk Broer:
> At our location, only the windows server has large capacity backup
> solutions.
>
> I would like to backup to a smbfs partition.  I?m running Mandrake 9.2 with
> Samba 3.
>
> I tried a simple tar ?cvf and it failed as the file size got past 2
> Gigabytes.  I know this was an issue with early Unixes.
>
> Is 2 GBytes a file size limit?
>
> Is there a backup solution (commercial or otherwise) that will split the
> files into appropriate sizes and store them on a remote smbfs file system.
>
> It would be perfect if it could save a disk image and/or remember links and
> all the file permissions.  Any suggestions appreciated.
>             __  __      ___   ________  ___      __  ___      ___
> Dirk Broer / ||/ ||    /_ || /__  __// /__ \\   /// /__ \\   / __\\
>           //||//|||   ///|||   ///    ///_///  __  /// |||  ///_
>          ///| //|||  /___ ||  ///    /__  //  /// ///      /__ ||
>         /// |// ||| ///  ||| ///    /// |||  /// ///__/// ____///
>        ///      |||///   |||///    ///  ||| ///  |____// /____//
> Software Engineer
> (410)872-0300
>
> #include <standard_disclaimer>
> #include <funny_quote>