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I am currently facing an issue where at random times backups would contain BOM (Byte Order Mark) which, of course, breaks the backup SQL script (dump). This prevents me from restoring those particular backups through dbForge (see attached picture) or even using them with any other mysql client. It is particularly troublesome for my automatic deployment workflows which break when trying to import dumps onto production servers.

The problem doesn't happen to often. I'd say once in every ten backups. And yes its not database specific since if I get a faulty backup (contains BOM) if I immediately repeat the process I'll get a dump without BOM. One additional information which might be of use is that I've noticed this behavior since the last two-three patches. It wasn't an issue before that.

dfForge 6.1.154
MySQL 5.5.35 (CentOS 6.5)

Is it possible to send us the faulty backup script for investigation? You can upload it to our FTP server ftp://ftp.devart.com@anonymous

alexa wrote:Is it possible to send us the faulty backup script for investigation? You can upload it to our FTP server ftp://ftp.devart.com@anonymous

Unfortunately the script contains information such as user data which I cant' share for obvious reasons.

However, recently I've noticed that its was not BOM that was causing the problem - it was two BOMs If you take a look at the attached picture you'll notice that there are two BOMs at the beginning of the dumped file, something I failed to notice with Sublime hex editor which was obviously showing inconsistent data.

So what essentially happens is that dbForge occasionally adds two BOMs at the beginning of a backup (dump) file which causes latter restore (execution) operations to fail because the first BOM is recognized as a legitimate byte sequence but the second one is not.

Could you please provide us a *.backup backup project file with your specific settings being generated in Database Backup Wizard?

Please also let us know what encoding you have specified in the 'Encoding' dropdown menu on the 'Advanced' tab of the Database Connection Properties dialog box (right-click the connection in Database Explorer and select 'Modify Connection...' from the popup menu)?

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