I have this exact same problem. I tried creating an empty metadata file so it 
can write over it, but that didn't work.
I decided to symlink only the folder inside '.cache/deja-dup', the folder named 
6724d3f170e0390931977a130c2b7632. I thought by leaving the deja-dup folder, it 
will be able to write the metadata file but still have everything else symlink 
somewhere else. It didn't work, and it was nasty. As soon as I tried to ran a 
manual backup (from the GUI, of course) I saw this error:

"Specified archive directory '/home/[user]/.cache/deja-
dup/6724d3f170e0390931977a130c2b7632' does not exist, or is not a
directory"

Well, I guess it's technically not a directory, it's a symlink to one.

Has anybody come up with a workaround for this? Anything?

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  'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore
  ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

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