[Samba] Backing-up solution (disk image or tarball to windows server)

[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.
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