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We have a script that uses mysqldump to backup our databases to a network storage server. Just recently this error started: mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query when dumping table `xxx` at row: 1024037 I have had this problem before with two larger databases. The solution was to back them up to local disk, and then copy the files to the storage server. But I'd really like to know how to fix it, because it's a pain to have to do this for each database. I've googled the issue and found suggestions to increase max_allowed_packet. It was 256 MB (as passed in to mysqldump, it's 128MB in my.cnf), but I changed it to 1GB and still have the problem. I also have a different database that is both larger in total size, and also has a larger table that the table name that is mentioned in the error message. Any suggestions for how to make this work? We're using mysql 5.0.45 on CentOs 4.4. The options I'm using with mysqldump are: --quote-names --opt --max_allowed_packet=1GB --master-data=2 --single-transaction --flush-logs --routines Thanks, Donna