Hi,

I'm not asking this as a specific question, more a general gripe looking for some kind of explanation.

I don't do mysql restores very often, but many times when I have tried I get nasty errors as if its bombing out due to dodgy characters, or quote problems etc. Normally I am doing restores across the same major and minor revision (ie 5.1), but quite possibly with a point release difference.

Its just quite frustrating, and also for such an old and widely used product surprising that a simple backup and restore doesnt work at least 99% of the time.

So I suppose, Im asking is there anything people like me regularly do wrong that might cause this, or do other people experience similar issues and is there anything that can be done to improve matters? :S

thanks for any help :)

PS Im no MySQL expert but have used it a fair bit as well as Oracle and many Unixs and open source bits and pieces and Im usually quite good at making them do what I need ;)

cheers Andy.

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