when server start backups apache down

[nashirnet]

hi
plz help me

when server start backups apache down and server is very load
and all web sites down

this is top command


03:55:51 up 20:54, 1 user, load average: 34.04, 33.69, 17.33
450 processes: 446 sleeping, 2 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 4.7% user 3.3% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 91.8% idle
Mem: 1022792k av, 1014244k used, 8548k free, 0k shrd, 36528k buff
659872k actv, 141980k in_d, 22120k in_c
Swap: 20972848k av, 245640k used, 20727208k free 384580k cached

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Does apache say anything in it's logs?

/var/log/httpd/error_log
/var/log/messages

Which backup method are you referring to?

John