[Deskaheh-sysadmin] Deskaheh is not letting me in via FTP

[Treesong]

Hello all,

Deskaheh isn't letting me in through FTP. I wasn't too concerned about 
this before, because it was clearly a performance issue, in that I 
couldn't even connect to Deskaheh at all via FTP. But now, I'm a bit 
concerned, because I received the following error message:

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Authentication log (see session log for details):
Using username "mudster".
Access denied
Access denied

Server sent disconnect message
type 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR):
"Too many authentication failures for mudster"

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Does this mean that I'm locked out of Deskaheh until somebody with 
access lets me back in?

On a related note, we at Big Muddy IMC have been discussing setting up 
our own local server with the help of one or two people we know. We 
haven't decided on that as a group yet, and won't until at least this 
coming Sunday when we have our next general meeting. But in the 
meantime, how would we transfer all of our content from the MySQL 
database on Deskaheh to a new database on another new server?

Love and Healing,

Treesong