Backup All Databases

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Backup All Databases

Bahram Shayan

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November 28, 2012 at 8:34 pm

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TravisDBA SSCoach Points: 15780 More actions · Answer 1

If you are going to backup all the user databases on a database server, why not just use a Maintenance Plan? Simple to do.:-D

"Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

Charles Kincaid SSChampion Points: 13593 More actions · Answer 2

I like the idea of putting something like this as a task in a plan. This is dynamic in that it gets new databases without me having to do anything.

I add the "COPY_OnlY" parameter so that my backups don't interfer with other running plans. Then I include the databases excluded in this example (except tempdb). That way I have my system db backups as part of the same thing. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Great script. It's simple and easy to understand. Thanks.

ATBCharles Kincaid

Oliver Wootton SSC Veteran Points: 291 More actions · Answer 3

Using hand crafted scripts is all well and good, however you should enclose the database name in [ ] to avoid databases containing a space in their names; otherwise your script will crash. I have learnt this by experience.

Keep up the scripting though ...

akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 4

Oliver Wootton (12/17/2012)
Using hand crafted scripts is all well and good, however you should enclose the database name in [ ] to avoid databases containing a space in their names; otherwise your script will crash. I have learnt this by experience.
Keep up the scripting though ...

Thanks for the tip.