Michael D Schleif wrote:
Assuming that you are backing up over Samba, what I do is share "Documents and Settings" as something else (e.g., docs), which alleviates this problem.
Nope, sorry I forgot that bit: 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.
Can anything be done in this situation? I mean, short of having XP zipping the directory and placing the result in a "well-behaved" path.
Andrea.
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