in the PHPMyAdmin for your local server, selct your power cms database, then go to the Export tab. you can leave all of the defaults as is, and check the save as file option.
once the sql file is exported, see the "How to import a MySQL (.SQL) file to your database" tutorial on the learning resources page for details on importing the database.
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