Linux

There is an article in the knowledge base, but here in short:

There are different possibilities. If you have access to the machine where mysql is running, you should use:
mysqlhotcopy On our RedHat 8 server you just type:
/usr/bin/mysqlhotcopy --user=root --password=sdjksjd journal /path/to/backup/directory Alternatively:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump --user=username -p phpgedview >phpgedview The path of the command is specific for the mysql install on a MacOS X machine.

As root go to /home directory and execute the command:
tar -czvf pathto/archive.tar.gz username