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no :P (i couldn't explain it better than the website does)
here's the website:
http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.phpphpmyadmin is pretty common tho but when in phpmyadmin export page, you can tick a box for save as file and then choose zip or tar (i think).
but bigdump is probably the best and most reliable as it can stagger the export/import to avoid php & MySQL timeouts etc..