Thanks for the response, RVSC.

See, I don't know exactly when either backup will finish and I want to make the most of the maintenance window. I'm considering creating one job with the user and system database backups as individual steps so that I don't need to think about the scheduling--I would just have one start after the other (not sure which order I'll do just yet). Any reason not to do it that way?

Thanks again.

Mike