from staging to managing the staged records to completing the import... my server running nothing but Koha 3.0 (only 2GB partition) it's a test server so that's all that was available atm.. appeared to be running out of space... in /var/log/mysql I noticed: -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm 1611014 2008-04-07 12:01 mysql-bin.000006 -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm 105149302 2008-04-07 12:01 mysql-bin.000005 -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm 672 2008-04-07 12:01 mysql-bin.index -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm 104955729 2008-04-07 11:57 mysql-bin.000004 -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm 104889615 2008-04-07 11:52 mysql-bin.000003 -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm 104987514 2008-04-07 11:47 mysql-bin.000002 -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm 104906029 2008-04-07 11:42 mysql-bin.000001 honestly having no clue what they do/did were used for... I assumed(yes we know what that means :) that these were sort of temp/log files of what mysql-bin was doing ...so in essence recording every single transaction or something... and the one with the highest number kept incrementing...and would get to it's size limit it seems every 5 min... so right now I'm monitoring and deleting each of the ones below the highest numbered(in filename)...attempting to stave-off the 'out of disk space' which was causing this process to 'hang' on Friday. Any thoughts? --Huck