Create backup of MySQL database alongside Features module
It's hard to encapsulate every db configuration value into a Feature. And, Features was never designed to do that. A Feature was originally supposed to be a re-usable site component.

To capture more fully site configuration look at the Configuration module:


  The configuration management module enables the ability to keep track
  of specific configurations on a Drupal site, provides the ability to
  move these configurations between different environments (local, dev,
  qa, prod), and also move configurations between completely different
  sites (migrate configurations) without the use of modules with all
  configuration being owned by the site.
  
  For the most part this module provides the same functionality as a
  subset of the features module. Features module is currently the go to
  tool for moving configuration from environment to environment and site
  to site, and it does a great job doing this, but "configuration
  management" was never really what features was intended to do. The
  goal of features module was to group configurations together to
  satisfy a certain use-case. Instead most people use features to export
  configuration to code to ease with deployment between environments.
  Many of us have experienced the shortcomings of using features module
  for configuration management and found where it doesn't quite work to
  easily manage configuration. A couple other modules have spawned off
  to help with some of these shortcomings: features override, features
  plumber, Features Tools.


Additionally since not everything can be captured in Features, look into building your site via a Installation Profile where you can codify new Users, Content Types and custom variables as well.

I am currently using Features + an Installation Profile to build a webapp that lets notified individuals via email submit a Drupal Webform via a secretly keyed url parameter. You can use features (to an extent) but you really have to use many small features to get the job done, and not all modules play well with Features (like exporting Webforms, which requires node_export, uuid and THEN features) ...