Linux Backup to Samba share on Windows NTFS

[DBT]

Can any help me understand how to get around backing up a Linux box that is
larger than 2 Gb's to a Windows NTFS share using Samba.

When I try to do a CPIO or Tar backup of a Linux server to disk instead of
tape, the backup always fails when it reaches the 2 Gb size. I would like
to do Linux server backups to a disk on a Windows worklstation.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

TIA!

[Roxoff]

Can you not make the tar file locally using compression to keep the size down, then copy it across the lan to the windows machine?

Alternatively, you could try setting up a cheapie old PC, installed with your favourite distro and with a cheap but reasonably large hard drive in it just for the backups - you could use use a script to NFS mount a drive, copy a backup onto it, then unmount the NFS volume.