# What does it mean to report a duplicate path

**URL:** <https://forum.duplicati.com/t/what-does-it-mean-to-report-a-duplicate-path/1997>\
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**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/what-does-it-mean-to-report-a-duplicate-path/1997 "2018-01-06T12:23:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/what-does-it-mean-to-report-a-duplicate-path/1997/2 "2018-01-09T15:00:38Z")

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I believe that warning message indicates that the path listed was found in the local Duplicati database twice. How that would happen I’m not sure but my GUESS would be a symlink, circular reference, or similar folder structure oddity might cause it.

As far as the implications of that, I don’t really know. Since it’s a warning and not an error I expect it’s not a major issue. I wouldn’t know what to suggest for a response to it, though if I saw that in my backups I’d probably ignore it for a few runs and see if it goes away and if not then come back here and ask if I should be worried that it hasn’t resolved itself.

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