An error occurred during the backup: hard or symbolic link

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diederikl

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Since a few days my user backups (on reseller level) generate the following errors for alot of users:
Code: 
Will not backup ./data/users/xyz/user.history for user xyz because it's a hard or symbolic link
Will not backup ./data/users/xyz/crontab.conf for user xyz because it's a hard or symbolic link
Will not backup ./data/users/xyz/ticket.conf for user xyz because it's a hard or symbolic link

I checked the files and they are not a symbolic or hard link, they are just empty files. The mentioned files variate from user to user, since some people do login so the user.history isn't empty and gets backup normally, thus no error is reported.

Has anyone seen this behavior before and can point me to a way to resolve this issue?
 
How do you know it's not a hard link? Please show us the output of ls -al FILENAME for each of the files.

Jeff
 
Thanks for your reply Jeff.

This is the output of 'ls -al' of the same same user dir.
Code: 
ls -al
total 80
drwx--x--x   3 diradmin diradmin    4096 Jan  5 01:01 .
drwx--x--x 352 diradmin diradmin   12288 Jan  3 22:13 ..
-rw-------   1 root     root       16908 Jan  5 00:14 bandwidth.tally
-rw-------   1 root     root         825 Jan  5 00:14 bandwidth.tally.cache
-rw-------   2 diradmin diradmin       0 Dec 16 10:21 crontab.conf
drwx--x--x   2 diradmin diradmin    4096 Jan  5 01:02 domains
-rw-------   2 diradmin diradmin      16 Dec 16 10:21 domains.list
-rw-------   1 diradmin diradmin    1036 Jan  5 00:14 du_breakdown.list
-rw-r--r--   2 root     ftp            0 Dec 16 10:21 ftp.passwd
-rw-r-----   2 diradmin xyzxyzxyzx  2596 Dec 16 10:21 httpd.conf
-rw-------   2 diradmin diradmin     101 Dec 24 11:54 login.hist
-rw-------   2 diradmin diradmin      40 Dec 16 10:21 ticket.conf
-rw-------   2 diradmin diradmin       0 Dec 16 10:21 tickets.list
-rw-------   1 diradmin diradmin     595 Jan  1 04:20 user.conf
-rw-------   2 diradmin diradmin      46 Jan  1 04:20 user.history
-rw-------   1 diradmin diradmin      12 Dec 30 08:42 user_ip.list
-rw-------   1 diradmin diradmin     236 Jan  5 00:14 user.usage
 
Thanks Alex, for pointing me in the right direction. I have changed the config file and see if the errors are gone when the backup runs again tonight.
 
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