update 3pm——–
Found a recursive link situation that caused our internal search spider to crash the system. Backups was not the main problem after all.
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Any web pages, web databases, and FTP connections would have experienced problems throughout this time.
As of 5AM there was some performance problems because of a unexpected timing of a backup process. In trying to correct other failed processes caused by this, the system went down because of running out of memory.