Unable to create files in /tmp or /var/tm

You guys where so right! Thank you, confirmed via testing
that this is certainly client side and in all cases because
my disklist file on the server was incorrect. Either pointing
to links that did resolve to partitions or pointing to directories
that where not mount points.

I was able to correct problems on 3 of my servers.

There is a 4th server with the same error, which I suspect is
due to the fact that we are backing up the device /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
rather than the mount point.

This was done because the FW admin wanted to backup the ABE, alternate
boot env as well as the active partitions and didn't want to have to
update the disklist file when alternating between boot environments.

We should be moving to a new FW platform "soon" and in the mean time
I will recommend to him that we sync the current boot env to the
alternate and stop backing it up. More than a few days should have
elapsed and we are apparently not returning the the alternate boot
and if we do we will want the current config, not an old one. Then we
can backup the valid mount points again.

The other outstanding issue, also on the same system, is one of the
spindles is too active (and slow?) and we fail backups. We need to
move to another model (backup offline mirror or snapshots) and/or
use faster CPU/HW, which will happen "soon".

The FW by the way is a Ultra 30 running Solaris 8.

Thank you very much, are backups are not only running more cleanly
(error-wise) and efficiently (not backing up the same partition a
second time) and effectively, since we are backing up other partitions
that we where missing before.

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