Hi Immanuel Am 19.04.2011 16:36, schrieb Immanuel Normann:

is there an easy way to dump an basex database, either on the command line or in the interactive mode of the basexserver.

all available commands can be found here: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands You're looking for

EXPORT [path] which serializes the currently opened database to the given path.

Hope that helps, cheers Leo