Aside from using the "backup" button in tools - options, if I were to stop the mezzmo service, and then backup the database using either Explorer or a XCOPY command, is it the same thing?

Or does the "backup" do some things on the back end ?

I'm asking this because lately, for some unknown reason (those are the worst kind of reasons BTW), I seem to be losing my drive mapping in explorer during the backup operations, but not through normal copy operations.