MySql: Communication link failure

 A full backup for a single account stops with the following exception:

2016-05-11 13:58:25,603 WARN [FullBackupThread] [name=admin@example.com;mid=2;] backup - Error occurred during full backup for account admin@example.com; aborted backup  and deleting /backup/tmp/full-20160511.115806.637/accounts/991/e7e/991e7e61-8ec0-4216-ac39-13407491ac83 
com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException: system failure: backing up table: mboxgroup2.mail_item 
ExceptionId:BackupSetWorkerThread-DB:1462967905595:a573750a2018f5f0 
Code:service.FAILURE 
at com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException.FAILURE(ServiceException.java:260) 
at com.zimbra.cs.db.DbBackup.saveTable(DbBackup.java:128) 
at com.zimbra.cs.backup.BackupAccountSession.storeTablesToLocalFile(BackupAccountSession.java:317) 
at com.zimbra.cs.backup.FileBackupTarget$BackupAcctSession.storeTablesStage(FileBackupTarget.java:1639) 
at com.zimbra.cs.backup.FileBackupTarget$BackupSetWorkerThread.run(FileBackupTarget.java:2993) 
Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Communications link failure
The last packet successfully received from the server was 400 milliseconds ago. The last packet sent successfully to the server was 400 milliseconds ago.


1. If the account is big and the backup takes too long, MySql will timeout. To solve the problem run the following command:

zmlocalconfig -e backup_disable_blob_digest_preloading=true 

2. A second fix is to increase the timeout value in my.cnf file:

Edit /opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf file and put under the [mysqld] section:
wait_timeout = 28800 
Save & exit.

zmcontrol restart 


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