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

[Radio Gong 2000 GmbH & Co. KG [Technik]]

I take this one and it works perfect for me...

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ribs/

But take care for the right version of pears Console_Getopt.

Greetings

Sascha

Am Donnerstag, 25. März 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.
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