Hi Theo,

I am successfully backing up SSAS databases following you idea.

It was definitely not straight forward, I had a few issues

as you can see here

and also here

But in my case:

1) I don't have sql server installed on the same machine that I have ssas

2) I don't have ssas installed on the same machine that I have sql server

Now the new challenges are:

1) how do you do a RESTORE VERIFYONLY in SSAS

2) how do you do a DBCC CHECKDB in SSAS

Another thing that I needed done is to delete old SSAS backup files.

this you can see on this link, I have done it using PowerShell, from a remote computer.

It deletes files older than 2 days.

All the scripts are there.

regards

Marcelo