What to backup?

Software Support
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Hi @Julien_L,

This configuration line will be very picky about small changes – the form that’s in the documentation should be correct for most users:

[cli]
dump = "/usr/bin/mysqldump -h {$hostname} -u {$username} -p{$password} {$databasename}"

If that doesn’t work, I have two suggestions:

  • Check your PHP error log around the time you attempted the database dump. It’s possible that it’ll contain something helpful.
  • Test the dump command yourself on the server e.g. using a secure shell connection. Try running the same command that you’ve configured:
    /usr/bin/mysqldump -h {$hostname} -u {$username} -p{$password} {$databasename}
    …replacing {$hostname} with the database hostname, {$username} with the database username, etc., each matching the value in your config.inc.php configuration file and being careful not to change anything else about that command.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team