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1. Change to the user account that runs Partek Flow^® Flow^® . Suppose it is user account flow, then:
   $ su flow
   
   
2. Then the default home directory should be/home/flow. Run the following command to make the backup database in home/flow directory, the archived file name is flowdbbackup.tar.gz:
   $ tar -czvf flowdbbackup.tar.gz .partekflow/
   
   
3. Log out of the user account that runs Flow:
   Ctrl+D

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