Preserve folder date creation when backing up from windows

Hello everybody,
I have to backup several windows computers on our Xserve RAID. I tried a few softwares but none of them were able to preserve the creation and modification dates for the folders, files being OK. I used smb to access accounts created on an afp share. Would it be better to use NFS, or are you aware folks of any softs which could do the trick ?
Thanks in advance.
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