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+Maintenance
+===========
+
+
+Creating a Backup
+-----------------
+
+
+You can use the Python script ``utils/backup.py`` to create a backup (SQL dump) 
+of the SQL-Backend::
+
+    utils/backup.py -d folder/where/the/backup/is/created
+
+You can do this while CaosDB is online.