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SQL Server Express Automated Backup

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SQL Server Express does not come with the SQL agent support which means there is no easy way to schedule backups of databases.

After some googling, a great article by Jasper Smith came up. He has built a wonderful stored procedure that backups all the databases on the instance and even produces a report for the backup.

Really nice feature of the script is that it will even allows you to manage how long the backups are kept for!

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