IMAP and backing up

I use IMAP through my hosting services and want to achieve the following after a slight hiccup. One of the accounts needed to have my business partner access it from his home using a POP mailbox. Now this account only carried about 20 emails that were not important as its a general 'info @' address and carries no sensitive content.
Whilst setting up his access over the phone he inadvertently did a send and receive prior to filling in the check box that says "Leave copy of messages on the server".....You've guessed it .....it cleared them.
Now, so as not to ever come near to this situation again, I want to duplicate / copy all my IMAP mailboxes and the content to my Mac I have at home.
In the open Mail programme I have a folder that is titled 'ON MY MAC' and there resides several folders that I have created over time in which I drag an email I want to keep and file accordingly.
Now I want to copy an entire mail box that is accessed via IMAP that I see on my screen and duplicate it on the Mac for archive and safety reasons. When I right click on the respective mailbox called FZZ for example is see dialogue saying "Export Mailbox".
The named mailbox FZZ has within it about 15 folders that have different titles to which I drag / move an email to classify. If I select the main folder titled FZZ and select "Export"will it copy all the folders contained within as well?
Do I get an option to decide where to save it.?
I want it to appear in Mail under the 'ON MY MAC' in tact as it appears as a Mailbox in IMAP so if for any reason things go titssup I will have a safe copy.
Is there a a way in which I can automate........I receive an email in to an IMAP mailbox and it duplicates in a duplicate folder ON MY MAC.
Thoughts very much appreciated,

Hi,
Am I asking for trouble?
Always nice to have a Backup in a couple of places.
Is there a way I can download and save it all, without deleting it from the server?
It should already be downloaded AND on the Server, if you can read it when your offline, then you have it.
Second question; should I move my account to a different host, would I loose IMAP access to the 6 year archive of email?
Yes & no, You'll no longer be able to access what is on the server, but the ones you have should remain if you don't delete that account in Mail.
To back up what you have already...
On Mail...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
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For Address Book...
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Move or copy those .zip files to a safe place or 2.

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