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+REM I wrote this specifically to dump the entire database including SQL to the backupdb.sql for the purpose
+REM of importing it into MariaDb running on the Andrastea machine which is a Pi 4 B.
+REM If this works out nicely then I am considering purchasing another Pi 5 16Gig 
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+"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin\mysqldump" --hex-blob --max_allowed_packet=64M --default-character-set=utf8mb4 --all-databases --user=root --password=dbas --master-data > backupdb.sql 
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