Our site crashed. We were advised to fix the error and we were thinking of backing up our database.
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Hello,
In case that you are using MySQL, you could do the following:
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SSH to your Droplet
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Then run the following command:
mysqldump -u your_user -p your_database > your_database.sql
This would create an SQL file which you could then download over SFTP.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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