I have a FAT partition on a system that will not get backed up
incrementally.  Full backups are done on the partition every time.  The
partition is mounted on a linux RedHat 8.0 system.  It is mounted
read/write.  It needs to be a FAT partition because the user is using it
for running Windows 2000 via VMWare.

Is there a problem with incremental backups on FAT partitions?  I
searched with google and found some references to some problems, but no
real explanations or solutions.  Can somebody explain what is going on
and how to work around the problem?

Would one solution be to backup the partition with SAMBA rather than the
standard amanda client?  According to the SAMBA document it should do
incremental backups.

Any help is greatly appreciated.