Andrea Borgia wrote:
> the client is running Linux and I am
> trying to backup that directory that is located on the Windows partition
> on the same disk and mounted read-only.

Then create a symlink to that directory with a simple name from
somewhere else and backup that symlink (not the directory containing it,
but the link itself).

Alex

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