[TriLUG] mysql question

[Roy Vestal]

I want to setup a devel box running apache/php/mysql to do some devel. 
Ok, it's my laptop. I'd like to setup joomla on the laptop, play with it 
and once it's happy, move it to my server.

Now Joomla is simple from what I can see, simply tgz the joomla inst, 
and tar xvfz it to my webserver. The question is the data in mysql.

Can i simply do a db dump of my db, and then recreate it on my webserver?