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Does your problem still exist? Are you able to perform the dump by hand with mysqldump? Is it possible that your table has grown so the default value of max_allowed_packet is too small. What version of MySQL do you have. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/communication-errors.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/gone-away.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/packet-too-large.html Tom Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > our overnight backup scripts have suddenly been getting a lot of > mysqldump errors like: > > mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query > when dumping table `cs_email_things` at row: 512234 > > I've checked the obvious things, and no luck: > * disk space is OK > * nothing in the mysqld log > * nothing in /var/log/messages/ > * CHECK TABLES doesn't complain about the tables > > In fact, now that I think of it, it's happened on two different > servers; though mysqldump is always running on the same machine. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks. > > Tom. > -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.NET http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Gleb Paharenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.NET <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]