Did your hoster make a MySQL Server update?
No, my site is only used to host WordPress. I have not made any administrative changes/updates to the underlying site in months, maybe years.
The backup 8/31 had these results for the MySQL database backup: [31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] 1. Try to backup database …
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Connected to database wrd_ff461da7la on jasehowe.fatcowmysql.com
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_commentmeta” with “321” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_comments” with “113” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_forum_forums” with “20” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_forum_groups” with “6” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_forum_posts” with “44” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_forum_threads” with “23” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_forum_usergroup2user” with “0” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_forum_usergroups” with “0” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_links” with “7” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_options” with “345” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_postmeta” with “223” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_posts” with “525” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_term_relationships” with “278” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_term_taxonomy” with “31” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_terms” with “31” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:24] Backup database table “wp_usermeta” with “8208” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:25] Backup database table “wp_users” with “580” records
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:25] Added database dump “wrd_ff461da7la.sql” with 4.84 MB to backup file list
[31-Aug-2015 03:00:25] Database backup done!
The next backup, and all subsequent backups, failed with the error messages in my original post.
The MySQL server on my site says it has been running continuously for 48 days – so it doesn’t seem like the problem that started after 8/31 could be from a change to the MySQL server on my site.
or is PHP update or mysql client liberyes?
