Ok, I just bought a dedicated server and I'm trying to get my forum and website moved over to it. I'm having a problem exporting the database from my old server and importing it to my new one. I've tried phpMyAdmin but I think that the database may be too big, because it just hangs and doesn't do anything when I try making a backup.

I've tried SSH with this command: "mysqldump -u db_username -p db_name > /path/to/backup.sql" but everytime it asks for my password it says that it's wrong. I know for SURE that everything is right. I wrote it down when I first made the database and it's even in the config file for my forum. I'm not sure what to do, I've been trying for the past 3 hours to find something but I can't. :( Thanks for any help.

I'm not sure what to say--you need to get mysqldump to work.

Does your host run MySQL on a separate machine? You may need to specify the host to connect to with mysqldump.

Sans that, I would contact your host's support and ask them to do it for you.

Post the exact commands that you are typing into SSH. Maybe someone here can help you.

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mysqldump -hserver -uuser -ppass database

Try this http://www.webyog.com/sqlyog/download_sqlyogfree.html (you can enable external access to mysql in your cpanel)

Download your db, then upload it to the new server.