Very nice! I would optimize some things in the coding for large installations with hundreds of backups going on every hour (logs etc..) though. Example would be to the exclusion table and the "AND d.name NOT IN (SELECT db_name FROM dbautility.dbo.db_exclude)". Could be replaced with a JOIN logic and get the NOT out of there.

All in all I enjoyed reading it and I can see this benefiting quite a few DBAs out there. Thanks!