[IvanRaide]

I was referring to Quaddy entire backup method. I think the default permissions from WinSCP would be fine for dbs, I more was saying as a 'complete' backup/restore method, copying all the files would probably not work. For example, any 3rd party apps copied from Applications and back again would not (by default) have the right permissions, (at least in Windows). Probably on a Mac or other unix type box the winscp would work since the permissioning system is the same, (but that is a guess, I haven't tried it).