backing up databases

Ok, I'm using phpadmin. Is this the correct way to backup my database for the forum here...

In this area:

View dump (schema) of database

I checked:

Add 'drop table'

Structure and data

send

Then saved the file to my hard drive. Is that it? I opened the .sql file and it looked like everything was in there...

Thats what Andrew told me to do. I asked over at pankpages. Well he actually told me to check Structure and Data, then click Go, then copy everything into a file. I saved it in a text file, because you can import text files with phpadmin.