I personally don't see why he does not settle his dispute with the host.
Yes Threads Backup drops them one at a time.
Slayer is right as backing up the individual tables is alot better on bigger sites. I can't tell ya how many times I have seen PHPMyAdmin time out on larger databases trying to be backuped in a large chunk.
This process for him will be time consuming.
KYDD,
If any of this is over your head I suggest you post a post in our developer for hire forum and they may be able to do something for you.
