# Too many levels of symbolic links

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links/2664>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 20, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links/2664 "2024-02-20T08:25:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![TristisOris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/tristisoris/32/625_2.png) [@TristisOris](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/TristisOris)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links/2664/1 "2024-02-20T08:25:46Z")

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Some of tasks stop working.

```auto
Error: upload error: too many levels of symbolic links.

snapshotted directory `{"path":".","error":"unable to 
read directory: open /share/path: too many levels of symbolic 
links","dur":"15.191975ms"}`

```

` **Error:** unable to create local filesystem: unable to determine entry type: lstat /share/path: too many levels of symbolic links.`

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**Author:** ![TristisOris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/tristisoris/32/625_2.png) [@TristisOris](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/TristisOris)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 6:53am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links/2664/2 "2024-02-21T06:53:53Z")

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Already all tasks fail with that error. So that some global problem.

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**Author:** ![martinpk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@martinpk](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/martinpk)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links/2664/3 "2024-03-03T21:34:30Z")

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If you haven’t found a solution yet, could it be that `/share/path` is a symbolic link to itself or to something that points back to this (or that directory contains such a symlink), thus creating a circular reference?

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**Author:** ![TristisOris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/tristisoris/32/625_2.png) [@TristisOris](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/TristisOris)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 8:42am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links/2664/4 "2024-03-04T08:42:11Z")

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container restart usually solve that problem.  
Sometimes i got it after host reboot and need to restart container once again.

Maybe some symlinks exist on share. Since it’s huge, i have no idea.

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**Author:** ![TristisOris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/tristisoris/32/625_2.png) [@TristisOris](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/TristisOris)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links/2664/5 "2024-03-22T07:31:33Z")

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after container restart all backups it lost.

 ![изображение](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kopia/original/1X/e3ac5d9ffa2bbbcdb0071911dc05845b1b48966c.png)  
all memory instant leaking, but snapshot can’t be loaded.  
 ![изображение](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kopia/original/1X/aadc3196775a28a25891cd81fff7d7c84f40ae9e.png)

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**Author:** ![B3N3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@B3N3](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/B3N3)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 10:30am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links/2664/6 "2026-03-10T10:30:52Z")

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Hi, I have the same problem. I get the error too many symbolic links for all snaphots, after I restart the container, it mostly worked (not always).  
Do u have found a solution?