moving form to a new server/webhost

[webspawner]

I searched these forums but could not find the answer:

I need to know if moving server would be a straight swap for the forums.

In other words, is it as simple as backing up the sql database and files from FTP (forum has already been installed obviously) and then just restoring them in the new database, reuploading the config and altering the database information and script paths in config?

Is it as simple as that? What about permissions?

Are permissions automatically set when installed or can I re-CHMOD these files/directories?

Please help,

Thanks,