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1. Enter your domain name or ip in the following box: "hostname or ip address"

2. click "open" at the bottom

3. You will be prompted for the user name and password to log into the server, if you dont have ssh access to the server it will fail at this point.

4. You will need the username & passwd from your config.php file or have the root username & passwd for the mysql server.

5. Enter the mysql command mysql --opt -uroot -p dbname > /path/to/save/dbname.sql and hit enter, it will prompt for your passwd for whatever usename you entered.