Godai, I love your little dancing shaman guy or whatever in your Sig!
Anyway.. I do want to find a good way to backup my database... I'll check this script out and see if it would be useful.
Oh, and Leo -- the "here" link for the script I'm supposed to check out is missing an "http://" in the URL -- it tries to take me to
http://www.yabb.info/community/www.granddanois.com/leo/backup.php.txt instead of
http://www.granddanois.com/leo/backup.php.txt 
[Edit - someone edited my message to take out the
www.yabb.info/community part of the first url there... i changed it back because i intended it to be that way in order to express my point. Hopefully i have clarified things by adding the correct URL after it.]