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Backup your MS SQL Databases. Perfect for SQL Express.
DECLARE @BackupFile varchar(255), @DB varchar(30), @Description varchar(255), @LogFile varchar(50)
DECLARE @Name varchar(30), @MediaName varchar(30), @BackupDirectory nvarchar(200)
SET @BackupDirectory = 'F:\Backups\Databases\'
--Add a list of all databases you don't want to backup to this.
DECLARE Database_CURSOR CURSOR FOR SELECT name FROM sysdatabases WHERE name <> 'tempdb' AND name <> 'model' AND name <> 'Northwind' AND name <> 'msdb' AND name <> 'master'
OPEN Database_Cursor
FETCH next FROM Database_CURSOR INTO @DB
WHILE @@fetch_status = 0
BEGIN
SET @Name = @DB + '( Daily BACKUP )'
SET @MediaName = @DB + '_Dump' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112)
SET @BackupFile = @BackupDirectory + @DB + '_' + 'Full' + '_' +
CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112) + '.bak'
SET @Description = 'Normal' + ' BACKUP at ' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '.'
IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM msdb.dbo.backupset WHERE database_name = @DB) > 0 OR @DB = 'master'
BEGIN
SET @BackupFile = @BackupDirectory + @DB + '_' + 'Full' + '_' +
CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112) + '.bak'
--SET some more pretty stuff for sql server.
SET @Description = 'Full' + ' BACKUP at ' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '.'
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SET @BackupFile = @BackupDirectory + @DB + '_' + 'Full' + '_' +
CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112) + '.bak'
--SET some more pretty stuff for sql server.
SET @Description = 'Full' + ' BACKUP at ' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '.'
END
BACKUP DATABASE @DB TO DISK = @BackupFile
WITH NAME = @Name, DESCRIPTION = @Description ,
MEDIANAME = @MediaName, MEDIADESCRIPTION = @Description ,
STATS = 10
FETCH next FROM Database_CURSOR INTO @DB
END
CLOSE Database_Cursor
DEALLOCATE Database_Cursor
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BEGIN
21SET @name = @db + '( Daily BACKUP )'
SET @MediaName = @db + '_Dump' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112)

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BEGIN
SET @name = @db + '( Daily BACKUP )'
SET @MediaName = @db + '_Dump' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112)

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jsheely commented Nov 28, 2019

Fixed

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