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There are those times that you need to backup all you MS SQL databases quickly. If you need to do it all at once here is a script that will help you accomplish that.
Step 1: Create the path specified in the path variable or choose your own
Step 2: Decide the Filename format. Here for a Database with the nameĀ DotNetNukeDemo the script will produce DotNetNukeDemo_20180513.BAK
Step 3: Decide which databases to exclude in the backup process
Step 4: Run the script
DECLARE @name VARCHAR(50) -- database name variable
DECLARE @path VARCHAR(256) -- path for backup files
DECLARE @fileName VARCHAR(256) -- filename for backup
DECLARE @fileDate VARCHAR(20) -- used for file name
-- specify database backup directory
SET @path = 'C:\Backup\'
-- specify filename format
SELECT @fileDate = CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),112)
DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR READ_ONLY FOR
SELECT name
FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases
WHERE name NOT IN ('master','model','msdb','tempdb') -- exclude these databases
OPEN db_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
SET @fileName = @path + @name + '_' + @fileDate + '.BAK'
BACKUP DATABASE @name TO DISK = @fileName
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name
END
CLOSE db_cursor
DEALLOCATE db_cursor
