Hi Bruce, Error 28 means that "not enought diskspace", free some more disk space and try again.
-- Eero 2013/4/24 Bruce Whealton <br...@futurewaveonline.com> > > > > If time is pressing, and he's not sure how to get mysqldump to > > function properly, I'd suggest shutting down the mysql server, taking > > a tarball backup of /var/lib/mysql (or wherever the database files > > are), compressing that (xz is nice for these purposes), and then > > getting the mysqldump backup. > > I'm a bit confused here. If I get a tarball and compress that, then is > that > for download and moving to the other server? Is this just in case the > mysqldump does not work at all. > > > > As for getting the mysql dump itself, if he's not sure what privileges > > are set up, I'd probably skip resetting permissions and instead taking > > the dump from a daemon running under --skip-grant-tables. > > So, I start mysql-server with the option --skip-grant-tables and then try > to > do the mysqldump? > > > > > It all depends on how much time he has before the system becomes > > unavailable to him. > > > > > In my previous email, I point out that the error now is different. It is > error 28 from the storage engine. So, I have to google that and see what > that means. > > Thanks, > Bruce > > > >Definitely another option. > > >The only thing I would say is if getting the dump under > --skip-grant-tables > you need to make absolutely >sure external access to the database is > blocked > as the daemon will presumably be running a lot longer in > ->-skip-grant-tables to complete a dump than it would be just to reset a > password. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos