Paul Walker on 13 Jan 2012 10:11:03 -0800


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[PLUG] mysql backup via cron running into trouble


I've got this in my crontab
* 12 * * * mysqldump -u root -password --all-databases > /srv/www/sql-backups/$(date +\%y\%m\%d).sql

Then I do some manual cleanup every couple weeks... it works for now. I would expect this to just run the dump, create the file, and that's it... I'm getting tons of errors like this:

mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'show fields from `contact`': Out of resources when opening file '/tmp/#sql_242d_1.MYI' (Errcode: 24) (23)

and everything grinds to a halt... what's the big deal here?

paul 
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