there's an exisitng option for the COPYTO='\\jons-laptop\SharedFolder\SQLBackups\' that is already a part of Native Sql backups,as well as litespeed and redgate backups.
can't you just add that to your backup command, after you create the proper share to your local machine?
Lowell
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