If you're on a Linux/Unix machine, you can use the Command Line tools via SSH to create a database dump (backup of the mysql database) by inserting the command:
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mysqldump -uusername -ppassword databasename > databasename.sql

If you wish to compress the above output so that it's easier to transfer around, then you can do:
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tar -cvpzf databasename.tgz databasename.sql

If you've compressed the output and would like to decompress it, then you can run:
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tar -xzvf databasename.tgz
(the output will extract as databasename/databasename.sql)

And to restore said backup, after you purge data out of the MySQL database:
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mysql -h localhost -uusername -ppassword databasename < databasename.sql


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