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When attempting to restore my xcloner backup i received the following error:

I have seen this error once before and so have some sort of half-backed guess as to what's going on.  There are two sites... a production site and a development site.  The development site is a subdomain of the production site... and it's also a subdirectory of the parent site on the server, eg:

/username/public_html

/username/public_html/dev

Previously, when I was copying over the files to create the dev environment, I had forgotten to tell it to exclue the dev directory so I assume it went into some sort of weird recursion on restore.  I fixed the problem simply by running my prod backup with "dev" excluded.

Now, I am trying to reverse the process.  This time I'm copying from dev to prod.  But now I'm seeing this error again and I have no idea how to diagnose it.  It cannot be the same thing as before since this time the backup was of the child directory.  I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to restore /username/public_html/dev -> /username/public_html

Does anyone have any suggestions concerning how to proceed here?  It would help if I had some clue as to the likely nature of the underlying problem.  Then perhaps I'd have some way to fix it.