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# Command-line backup

If you are more of a Linux sysadmin, you can take a backup with a command of this type, where the final part is the file where you want to save it (and 'olimahc' is the password):

mysqldump -u chamilo -polimahc chamilo19x > chamilo-backup-file.sql