fix `mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection` on "cloud" server I have 6 months of backups left to perform and a single day can take up 200MB in raw mysqldump --extended-insert=false --complete-insert form.  If I try to dump more than a day worth of data I get mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query when dumping tabletableat row: 657925 (the row number changes).

my mysqldump query is mysqldump -h dbName.db.id.hostedresource.com -u 'user_name' -P 3306 -p'password' --net_buffer_length=4096 --single-transaction --extended-insert=false --complete-insert=TRUE --no-create-info --compact --insert-ignore --quick --where="start&gt;='2016-01-13 00:00:00' AND start&lt;'2016-01-15 00:00:00'" dbName table names

same issue exists with --extended-insert=true or --extended-insert=false and since it's a cloud server I have no access to the server or it's admin account to change buffer or cache settings.  Is there any hope of escaping this mindless drudgery within the next week!
In my case it helped to stop Apache, do mysqldump and then start Apache. 

Nothing else helped, no options that were recommended. Nothing (and I searched all posts). I have low 512M memory and maybe this is also the cause.