Azure WebJob deployment keeps failing

Since yesterday I'm suddenly having consistent deployment failures for my existing WebJobs. The error I'm getting is

Start Web Deploy Publish the Application/package to https://octotrip-api-test-dev.scm.azurewebsites.net/msdeploy.axd?site=octotrip-api-test__dev ...
Adding sitemanifest (sitemanifest).
Adding directory (XXX\app_data).
Adding directory (XXX\app_data\jobs).
Adding directory (XXX\app_data\jobs\continuous).
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(4295,5): Error : Web deployment task failed. ((3/16/2017 1:32:23 PM) An error occurred when the request was processed on the remote computer.)

(3/16/2017 1:32:23 PM) An error occurred when the request was processed on the remote computer.
An error was encountered when processing operation 'Create Directory' on 'D:\home\site\wwwroot\app_data\jobs\continuous'.
The error code was 0x800700B7.
Cannot create "D:\home\site\wwwroot\app_data\jobs\continuous" because a file or directory with the same name already exists.
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.NativeMethods.RaiseIOExceptionFromErrorCode(Win32ErrorCode errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DirectoryEx.CreateDirectory(String path)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DirPathProviderBase.CreateDirectory(String fullPath, DeploymentObject source)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DirPathProviderBase.Add(DeploymentObject source, Boolean whatIf)
Publish failed to deploy.

Important to note that at the time of the deployment; there is no app_data folder (I removed it manually using FTP). You can see it is creating the folder structure step by step; app_data, then the jobs folder, then the continuous folder. I confirmed using FTP that he succesfully creates the app_data/jobs folder; but creating the continuous folder consistently crashes.

This happens when deploying using a build definition in VSTS as well as deploying as a WebJob from within Visual Studio; with all the WebJob NuGet up to date.

Thanks

Worked around the issue by simply creating a new Azure Web App. Something messed up going on with the file system. Take a look.

app_data or subdirectories of app_data don't exist on the server. (confirmed using CMD and FTP).

This only happens for app_data\jobs\triggered and app_data\jobs\continuous

(app_data\jobs\triggereddddd works for example)

These folders have existed on this server before (they contain the data for the WebJobs that we're running)