Automate SQL full backup

Question

Dear Experts,
In our company we have a SAP 4.7 installed on MS SQL server 2000, Daily we need to stay untill all the users complete their work and fire the db13 backup and SQl query disk backup, for this i have scheduled a job in the SQL server enterprise manager and put a script where in i have to change the script everyday.
if you can provide me a script where in it changes the date & time of the file name every day automatically
The script i use is as follows:
use master
exec sp_addumpdevice 'disk','PRDF270807_1909','<path>\PRDF270807_1909'
backup DATABASE PRD to PRDF270807_1909
Kindly help me in this regards,
Thnx in advance
Kishore.

Answer 1

Hi,
i use this script to make a backup to a different device every week, you can easily modify this to a daily change. You can add a network share as target as well.
I have this script scheduled as a SQL Agent Job and it works like a charm.
Regards
  Clas
declare @week varchar(3)
declare @devl varchar(20)
declare @devp varchar(400)
declare @dev varchar(20)
select @week = datepart(ww,getdate())
set @devl = 'vsdata_week_' + @week + '.db'
set @devp = 'c:\tools\VSWMI\Backup\vsdata_week_' + @week + '.db'
if not exists (select name from sys.backup_devices where name = @devl)
        exec sp_addumpdevice 'DISK',@devl,@devp
declare crs cursor for
        select name from sys.backup_devices
        where name like 'vsdata%' and
              name <> @devl
open crs
fetch next from crs into @dev
while (@@fetch_status = 0) begin
     exec sp_dropdevice @dev
     fetch next from crs into @dev
end
close crs
deallocate crs
BACKUP DATABASE [VSData] TO @devl WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, 
NAME = N'VSData-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, 
STATS = 10, CHECKSUM, CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR