DirectAdmin cannot backup application due to hardlink in esbuild

[JelleTempelman]

Hi all.

I'm running a couple of Laravel applications on my DirectAdmin server. Today I found out that my applications are not backed-up because DirectAdmin tells me "User ### has one or more hard links in their path:"

/home/###/domains/###/public_html/node_modules/@esbuild/linux-x64/bin/esbuild
/home/###/domains/###/public_html/node_modules/esbuild/bin/esbuild

Is there a way to fix this?

[evanw]

Isn't this a question for DirectAdmin? The problem is not that esbuild has a bug, but that it sounds like DirectAdmin doesn't currently support backing up certain file system features.

You could try to work around this with npm ci --ignore-scripts. That won't run esbuild's install script, which won't optimize the esbuild package with a hard link. The only drawback is that running esbuild may be slightly slower.

[evanw]

I'm closing this as this isn't a problem with esbuild.