corrupted gzip file

[Jason Hayes]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 9:53:48 am Ben Francom wrote:
> On 7/4/07, Lynn David Newton <lynn.newton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have you tried using gzip from the command line? What
> > does this tell you?
> >
> >   gunzip mydbarchivename.gz
> >
> > (Substituting the name of your archive. We hope it says
> > nothing.)
> >
> > What command are you using to restore the database?
> >
> > What error message are you getting when you do it?
> >
> > Is the mysql archive made with mysqldump or is it an
> > actual backup of the database data directory? If the
> > latter you may be seriously hosed.
> >
> > Need more information to help you.
>
> Along with Lynn's recommendations, how is it being backed up?  Do you have
> cron calling a script?
> If so, please list the cron commands and the script.

No I did this one manually through phpMyadmin's export function and saved it 
as a gzipped file.

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Jason Hayes
E-mail: jason at jasonhayes.org