title: Backup mysql database in xampp?
body: <p>Hello everyone recently I made a database and our professor told us that we can make a copy of the database by copying the  folder in xampp/mysql/data.</p>
  
  <p>Then after i made my database I copied the folder of my database in there because I will continue making the database on another computer. It turns out that copying that folder along isnt enough, because it turns out that it can only read the database itself, but not the content of the tables in the database.</p>
  
  <p>The content of the database folder "tablename".frm and  a "db.opt".</p>
  
  <p>Can someone teach me the proper way to backup a database? and what is the files that i need to copy in order to run the database I made on other Computer.</p>
  
  <p>I have already read this but I can't seem to understand the instructions properly.(if ever this is the right way to backup it)</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-backup.html" rel="noreferrer">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-backup.html</a></p>