MySQL

Magento Move / Magento Transfer

This tutorial provides detailed information how to move a Magento store from one host to another (or to a different hosting account).

MySQL database backup.

This tutorial assumes you have phpMyAdmin included by default in cPanel for your account. In other cases you will have to use the same tool or a similar one that is capable of exporting your MySQL database.

Alternatively if you don’t have phpMyAdmin installed but you have shell access you can use mysqldump tool. The syntax is as follow