Server crashes during Networker Incremental/Full back-ups

Question

I could not find anything under the syslogs to point to what caused my server to core dump. We do late night incremental backups and each morning I come in, my server is hung. I see a list of core dump messages for each process, i.e. inetd, automountd. When I do a STOP + a, I get the OK prompt, type boot.....every thing boots up again but sometimes I get the "FIFO exists" and file systems in / or /usr or /var are read-only.
How can i best find the reason and solution to this mystery problem? Thanks

Answer 1

Hi
Please check up the syslog.conf for the log path.When your system hung and when you are doing a stop + a in Ok prompt type sync,it will create a core dump and reboots.What tool you are using to do the backup.if you are using the ufsdump check out the log messages which will give you where you have a problem.With ufsdump you cannot take a online backup of your filesystem.If you need a online backup then you have to take a filesystem snapshot and mount the snapshot and take a backup of the snapshot.