Restore Failure; Failed to create a directory - another item is in the way (81924)

Date: 07/11
Affected NV Version: all
OS Version: all
Plugin version: all
Application version: N/A
Description: Restore error: "Failed to create directory - another items is in the way..."

Symptoms; When creating and submitting a restore using the Rename/Relocate option within the File System plugin, the error; "Failed to create directory, another items is in the way", occurred. A path to a directory structure that exists was actually used to relocate this data.

Job runs;
Job Message 2011/07/18 07:48:07 287 Data Plugin <Servername> Analyzing items to restore
Job Message 2011/07/18 07:48:07 287 Data Plugin <Servername> Building list of items to restore
Warning 2011/07/18 07:48:07 287 Data Plugin <Servername> Failed to create a directory - another item is in the way
Warning 2011/07/18 07:48:07 287 Data Plugin <Servername> Unable to make parent containers of item(s) to be restored
Warning 2011/07/18 07:48:07 287 Data Plugin <Servername> Nothing to restore
Job Message 2011/07/18 07:48:07 287 Data Plugin <Servername> Job completed with warnings/errors
Warning 2011/07/18 07:48:07 287 Jobs <Servername> Job Status: Restore Completed with warnings
Job Message 2011/07/18 07:48:07 287 Jobs <Servername> Finished job 287, phase 1 (instance 1)

The relocated path that was attempted to be used was actually a Symbolic Link. Thus the "another item is in the way" warning message when Netvault was attempting to create the path.

Solution, ensure that the location to relocate the data to is not a symbolic link.