If you're switching your app's hosting over to EC2 and want to transfer your hundreds of gigs of database files, this may be the easiest way to do it. Also, I

If you're switching your app's hosting over to EC2 and want to transfer your hundreds of gigs of database files, this may be the easiest way to do it. Also, I suspect the exporting data (for keeping physical backups) may be the more common use case.