On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Andrew Meyer <AMeyer@precisionpractice.com> wrote:

Also, I have tried to run ther backup script and then restore on new server running CentOS 6.2, and it bombs out on the restore asking for the password.

I tried putting the database password into the script and no go.

Did you try rolling back the yum update that changed your perl version?
When yum/rpm needs to update config files it will make .rpmnew and .rpmsave files. You migth need to replace or merge settings from those files