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Old 01-25-2010
Maybe "mysqldump" reacts to the setting of ${dbdump} ? Just a guess.
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Old 01-25-2010
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Originally Posted by methyl
Maybe "mysqldump" reacts to the setting of ${dbdump} ? Just a guess.

Thanks for your idea. I renamed dbdump to filedump. that didn't change the result.

Still no file is saved.
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