Today I checked the MySQL backups for ziggy and noticed that the database hadn’t been backed up properly in weeks. I manually ran the backup script and was greeted with the following error:
Table 'mytable' is marked as crashed and last
(automatic?) repair failed
To correct this, I opened a MySQL console and repaired the table with:
REPAIR mytable;
This appeared to correct the issue, but like most computer problems, I have no idea why it happened in the first place.