How to migrate all of the WordPress content from one host to another?

I'm about to export all of my existing WordPress content from one server into another for backup and recovery purpose, how can I do this?

is it through the MySQL side or can be done through web ad开发者_Go百科ministration console eg. wp-admin?

you can take the database backup form the phpmyadmin, cpanel.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

and additionally there are wordpress plugin that can take backup of your database for you

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

Thanks.

I do this on the console

SQL: mysqldump --all-databases -u MYSQL_USER -pMYSQL_PASS > A_FILE_TO_DUMP.sql

files: tar -cvzf www.tar.gz /var/www

The I move them using scp and reverse the procedure