Thread:Project:Support desk/How to backup MySQL db using phpMyAdmin/reply (5)

The "dump file" = "SQL dump" is the file with the (database) dump in it. The one with the backup (= copy) of your database in it. In your first post you wrote that you called it "mediawiki.sql".

There is another possibility to backup your database (just coming to my mind): Use the tool mysqldumper. No, this has nothing to do with the tool "mysqldump", which I wrote about above; it is something completely different. It has a graphical user interface; once installed you use it with your webbrowser. And it automatically prevents timing out (e.g. because of the maximum execution time in PHP).

I think you should try this one. :-)