Attempting a migration from one computer to another, I did a backup now which resulted in a 0 byte astdb.dump file. Not knowing that this was bad, I've been trying to get another server up and running with this backup unsuccessfully.
I've attempted to repeat this and am currently unable to, but I have the backup with the file being 0 bytes. I was asked by a IRC user if I was running asterisk during the backup, and I am sure that Asterisk and MySQL were all running, the phone system was fully functional when I ran the backup.
FreePBX should at least notice during importing, preferably also during exporting that this file is empty and at least notify the user that the backup may not work but continue the import/export.
Setup details: Gentoo Linux x86, 8 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (2xQuad Core), 8GB RAM, 2.6.23 Kernel, Asterisk 1.4.17, FreePBX 2.4.0rc1.1