[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Mariner1

Hi. This has been working fine until a few days ago.When trying to do backups now i get this error in admincp

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.2:

Invalid SQL:
OPTIMIZE TABLE `filedata`;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Friday, January 2nd 2015 @ 05:54:35 AM
Error Date : Friday, January 2nd 2015 @ 05:55:08 AM
Script : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/admincp/c...cron&cronid=95
Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com/admincp/....php?do=modify
IP Address : xx.x.xxx.xx
Username : xxxxxxx
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Any idea what this is and how to fix it pls

It looks like optimizing that table took longer than your mysql timeout.

It should have run fine again next time.

You dont really need to have that [optimize] option enabled, I would turn it off.