I managed to use the older version of MySQL Administrator 1.2.15 and it appears to back up find using InnoDB online backup.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Michael Dykman <mdyk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have had this problem with PHPMyAdmin many times, and the only way I > know around it, is to go in and do your dump at the console. PHP does > not deal with UTF very well. > > - michael dykman > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Tompkins Neil > <neil.tompk...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using PHP MyAdmin to backup my MySQL database. The database is of > > type InnoDB > > and encoding used is utf8_unicode_ci. The variables are set as follows : > > > > *MySQL connection collation: **utf8_unicode_ci* > > *MySQL charset: **UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)* > > *character set client: utf8* > > *character set connection: utf8* > > *character set results: utf8* > > *collation connection: **utf8_unicode_ci* > > > > The problem I have is that the foreign characters like ăÿć etc are being > > backed up as scrambled non-readable characters. Any ideas why this is > > happening ?? Are there any other variables I need to check/set ? > > > > Cheers > > Neil > > > > > > -- > - michael dykman > - mdyk...@gmail.com > > May the Source be with you. >