When I backup, and it give me an xml file - does that include everything?

[gregwhitworth]

Ok. So I have an xml file from a backup at the domain level. I have never done one before and I want to know whether this is just information about what was there, or it is actually the file themselves somehow stored in the xml file. Let me see if I could explain this in another way, for example, let's say I downloaded that xml file and took it to another server running Plesk 10 and restored this data. Would all of my files/folders/and databases be fully there and functioning?