by Ken Task.
'Server has Gone Away' refers to the DB server. It is a known issue and has to do with the DB servers or client config settings for a DB server/client variable called 'max_packets_allowed'. Moodle trying to send a lot of data in one chunk. For initial DB server setups that uses default 16M which is too small for certain Moodle processes ... backups/restores. Increase the value to 32M and restart MySQL server for changes to take affect, then try whatever again.
See: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/packet-too-large.html for tech info.
Now am curious as to why 're-construct'ion is needed and what that really means. Heard of restoring an sql dump before but never 're-construction of'. And what was this 'terribly wrong' thing about?
'spirit of sharing', Ken