In trying to deploy several hundred nodes, I waited the hours for it to do all the groundwork, only to get this, when it got down to pushing the plan:

The file path (files) cannot start with the system files directory (files), as this may cause conflicts when building file URLs.

Okay, so what can I do about this?

Do I need to somehow change where my files are located on the source system? That hardly seems reasonable for a couple thousand nodes.

The source server has a files directory of: /var/www/siteroot/files
The destination site has a file path of: /var/www/othersiteroot/sites/default/files
Because of an older error with filefield and deploy, there is a link to the destination files directory, of: /var/www/othersiteroot/files

Please advise.

Thanks

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NATech commented
Component: Miscellaneous » deploy.module

I should add, that after a great many of the error I listed, I got a "failed to create directory" error as well. It didn't specify what it was trying to create, and the watchdogs on both servers had nothing to say on either of these errors.