[refertech]

Well i never use that feature in the CP if thats what you want to call it. I find it is much more reliable to us telnet or ssh assuming you have shell access with your host. I also have myphpadmin but it tends to timeout if you go much over 2 megs on your database size, buts its great for view tables in the database. Here are the backup and restore strings i use in ssh (which is almost like telent)

Backup:
mysqldump --opt -u username -p database name >/dir/onyour/server/backup/10_12_02.sql

Restore:
mysql -u user name -p database name < /dir/onyour/server/backup/10_12_02.sql

After you enter this you will be prompted for your password which you wont think is being typed in but it is so just keep typing it.

Mark