> > The backup starts, and the text indicates that it's backing up fine.
> > Then, all of a sudden, in the middle of the backup, it stops, and an
> > error box comes up that says, "Connection lost to database". That's all
> > it says. "Ok" is the only option. If she clicks "Ok", it all just
> > aborts, and goes back to the backup options screen.
>
> Are you always doing only backups or have you restored the db from that
> backup? The reason is that the db may be already corrupt, have you checked
> it for consistency?
>

Actually, we figured out what the problem was. It was that the disk that she
was backing up to was full. It was just a misleading error message.

-Joe