Yup, and to backup it's the same, basically:
mysqldump --opt -c --password=XXXXXXXX -q -v forum > forum_bup-051106am.sql
gzip -v forum_bup-051106am.sql
Then FTP the ZIP file to another server. The key is to get a copy on another drive either within your server (RAID Level 1 - Mirroring) or on another server - Main cause of catestrophic, 'no warning' total data loss is drive failure.
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