Exception while updating statistics

The replication throws a warning after the 2nd time the replicaiton occurs complaining about that te replication.properties already exists.

WARN true
IndexFetcher
Exception while updating statistics
java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException: /var/local/solr/cores/data/replication.properties
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:88)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214)
at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newOutputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:434)
at java.nio.file.Files.newOutputStream(Files.java:216)
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory$FSIndexOutput.<init>(FSDirectory.java:413)
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory$FSIndexOutput.<init>(FSDirectory.java:409)
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory.createOutput(FSDirectory.java:253)
at org.apache.lucene.store.NRTCachingDirectory.createOutput(NRTCachingDirectory.java:157)
at org.apache.solr.handler.IndexFetcher.logReplicationTimeAndConfFiles(IndexFetcher.java:681)
at org.apache.solr.handler.IndexFetcher.fetchLatestIndex(IndexFetcher.java:493)
at org.apache.solr.handler.IndexFetcher.fetchLatestIndex(IndexFetcher.java:254)
at org.apache.solr.handler.ReplicationHandler.doFetch(ReplicationHandler.java:397)
at org.apache.solr.handler.ReplicationHandler.lambda$setupPolling$2(ReplicationHandler.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:308)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:294)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)