There's a plugin called YamlDB (http://opensource.heroku.com) which can serialize the entire contents of the database into a .yml file. However, if your database has large tables, this solution might not be the best, as the resulting yaml file could be extremely large. Otherwise, your best bet might be the traditional means of dumping and loading SQL (mysqldump, etc.).
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