Hi, You use the mysqldump command to create the file. In your /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml file, you will have a section about your mysql config: <config> <db_scheme>mysql</db_scheme> <database>*kohadb*</database> <hostname>localhost</hostname> <port>3306</port> <user>*koha*</user> <pass>*kohapassword*</pass> ... Take the database, user and password from that file, and type something like this: mysqldump -u[username] -p[password] [database] > /root/TheFileYouWantToSave.sql for example, if I wanted to save my file as "Koha-02-13-2015.sql" using the credentials I have in my config file above, I would have: mysqldump -u*koha* -p*kohapassword* *kohadb *> /root/*Koha-02-13-2015.sql* If you do not put the password on the commandline, it will prompt you for it. mysqldump -u*koha* -p *kohadb *> /root/*Koha-02-13-2015.sql* - Tim On 2/13/2015 7:34 AM, John Doane wrote:

Dear fellow KOHA users, I am new to using KOHA but I have managed to use Josh Hertel’s virtual machine with KOHA to get a system up and running. I would like to save a copy of the sql file but I can’t seem to locate the actual database file! Any suggestions on how to find it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers John _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha