Quick script to show how to backup all user databases using litespeed. This particular one was for sql server 2k (ya, I know, will upgrade this to 2008R2 on Monday). If using it for 2005+ best change the sysdatabases reference to sys.databases.
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.lsp_FullBackupUserDBs( @BackupPath VARCHAR(255) = 'F:\MSSQL\BACKUP\Full\User\' ) AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED DECLARE @mkdir VARCHAR(4000) DECLARE @timestamp VARCHAR(50) DECLARE @filenamein VARCHAR(512) DECLARE @IDENT INT DECLARE @DBNAME VARCHAR(200) SELECT @IDENT = MIN([DBID]) FROM sysdatabases WHERE [DBID] > 0 AND NAME NOT IN ('master', 'model', 'msdb', 'tempdb') GROUP BY DBID WHILE @IDENT IS NOT NULL BEGIN SELECT @DBNAME = NAME FROM sysdatabases WHERE [DBID] = @IDENT SET @mkdir = 'mkdir ' + @BackupPath + @DBNAME + '"' SELECT @timestamp = DATENAME(MONTH, GETDATE()) + '_' + DATENAME(DAY, GETDATE()) + '_' + DATENAME(YEAR, GETDATE()) + '__' + STUFF('00', 3-LEN(HOUR), LEN(HOUR), HOUR ) + '_' + STUFF('00', 3-LEN(MINUTE), LEN(MINUTE), MINUTE ) FROM (SELECT DATENAME(HOUR, GETDATE()) AS HOUR, DATENAME(MINUTE, GETDATE()) AS MINUTE) AS timedata SET @filenamein = @BackupPath + @DBNAME + '\' + @DBNAME + '_db_%DateTimePostfix.bak' SET @filenamein = REPLACE(@filenamein, '%DateTimePostfix', @timestamp) EXECUTE xp_procedure @mkdir, no_output EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_backup_database @database=@DBNAME, @filename=@filenamein, @threads=3, @init=1, @priority=0, @logging=0, @affinity=0, @throttle=90, @buffercount=20, @maxtransfersize=1048576, @compressionlevel=6 SELECT @IDENT=MIN([DBID]) FROM sysdatabases WHERE [DBID] > 0 AND [DBID]>@IDENT AND NAME NOT IN ('master', 'model', 'msdb', 'tempdb', 'distribution') END END GO