I would have to agree with Gizmo on this. It really is not well designed and adept at doing backup or restore with the control panel of UBB.

I can understand where you're coming from as far as the "learning curve" etc, but I suppose maybe better to have a small FAQ on it or link to some post for current discussion for new users. If the script died from lack of connection you could really mess up your forum. Most of the other tools from your host provider are less likely to run into that kind of an issue.