I agree with all the comments, mostly the high I/O that it is going to generate. One thing I am trying to do is reduce the amount of time the backups take, mostly on a server with many databases. A test so far cuts the amount of time it takes to backup three user’s databases and the system databases from about 30 minutes to 10 minutes. This is still in testing. I will implement SQLbuddy’s idea of scheduling the jobs instead of manually kicking them off. I will also add the option of staggering the backups if there are more than five databases on the server or even check the sizes of the databases first and decide if they should run in parallel or sequential.

Thanks,

OBT