Backup is to big

$tables = $wpdb->get_col("SHOW TABLES LIKE '" . $wpdb->prefix . "%'");
$tables_string = implode( ' ', $tables );

Why am I imploding or why am I using the prefix to get a list of just the WP tables?

Disregard. I looked at your dump and see why now. ??

Yeah I forgot I’d changed that for security ??

OK – here is the answer of the admins:

“DirestAdmin had a non standard path to mysql dump and it is not linked” – they fixed it on my VPS and thanks to your investigation they will put it into their template for VPS servers ??

The above is a translation from Polish made by me so it could make no sense but I have tried to make it as precise as I could.

Yep, knew it had to be a path problem to mysqldump. ?? Thanks for confirming that.

You would think that MySQL would have a built-in error/error check displayed for this, but instead the error is silent so you have no idea what the problem is. An error is probably logged in the MySQL server log, but most folks do not have access/permission to view the MySQL server logs.

That does make sense, in a head spinny kind of way…

Yeah nuts isn’t it. You would think that would be a built-in top priority MySQL error check that would be displayed to the end user.