back up fails tat zipping backup

back up fails tat zipping backup

by Russ Williams -
Number of replies: 2
I have attempted to backup four different courses this afternoon, all of which failed and with consistent debug messages. If someone might be so kind ... to take a look at the attached file which contains the debug messages i received on the last page of the backup attempt.
I would greatly appreciate the help in resolving this issue.


russ
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Re: back up fails tat zipping backup

by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) -
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Hi Russ,

those "MySQL server has gone away" use to happen by some different causes:

- wait_timeout (MySQL conf variable).
- Old MySQL version running. Those errors were more frequent in MySQL 4.x versions when big packages were used.
- Sudden DNS / firewall / network problems, where access to MySQL (usually port 3306) is denied.
- Problems with threads in the OS you are running MySQL (recent update of OS / MySQL?).
- Incorrectly upgraded MySQL (from 4.x to 5.x). You'll need to repair all them, see this link.

In any case, the query showed in you attachment seems to be 100% correct (it's a trivial one), so I don't think it's the cause for your problem.

I'd try to repair all the tables, then try, then upgrade MySQL to a newer version, then try...

Hope it helps, ciao smile
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Re: back up fails tat zipping backup

by Russ Williams -
Thanks, Eloy.
If only I knew anything about tables. Wouldn't know where to start.


russ