If you have a big board then doing a mysql dump is WAY quicker than backing up via the control panel. In my case the first way took about 30 seconds while the second way took close to 12 hrs.
Does anyone know how quickly a database can be rebuilt from a mysql dump? If it took me around 30 secs to make a 500meg dump, what kind of time-frame am I looking at to rebuild a db from that dump if I move servers? Couple of minutes?
