Hi,

in your environment having test servers ? then create one linked server for that 2005 server(express edition) and create job for taking backup in your test servers.

note: in backup command you should have mention the path like '\\your 2005express edition location path'

script: create one job by using the below script in your test server and make sure your mentioned path like '\\ D:\ yoursql server2005 express edition\backup\......'

DECLARE @name VARCHAR(50) -- database name

DECLARE @path VARCHAR(256) -- path for backup files

DECLARE @fileName VARCHAR(256) -- filename for backup

DECLARE @fileDate VARCHAR(20) -- used for file name

-- specify database backup directory

SET @path = '\\C:\Backup\'

-- specify filename format

SELECT @fileDate = CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),112)

DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR

SELECT name

FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases

WHERE name NOT IN ('master','model','msdb','tempdb') -- exclude these databases

OPEN db_cursor

FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0

BEGIN

SET @fileName = @path + @name + '_' + @fileDate + '.BAK'

BACKUP DATABASE @name TO DISK = @fileName

FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name

END

CLOSE db_cursor

DEALLOCATE db_cursor

subahan munthamadugu