Thanks man.

OK, since the db/dump size is not going to be identical then I will assume that the server is giving me a complete backup.

If I dump the DB as instructed earlier in this thread (into a single file) then that's all I need to restore my database should anything bad happen, right? It'll restore all those tables from that single file?

What's the case with indeces? If the dump doesn't contain them, then what happens if I restore a DB using a dump? I get everything but the indexes? Could that pose a problem? Does the Admin CP backup copy the indeces if you do a backup that way?