At my previous job we had several projects where we worked with MSSQL express, maybe with multiple databases. Here is a quick script to just backup all user (non-system) databases on the system, quickly and easily. It could probably be improved a bit, maybe better naming for the backups, but as a quick backup-all-the-things it works great.
DECLARE @ name VARCHAR ( 50 ) -- database name
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: \D BBackups \'
-- specify filename format
SELECT @fileDate = CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),112) + ' - ' + REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),108),' : ', '' )
DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR 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_cursorDECLARE @name VARCHAR(50) -- database name
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 : \ DBBackups \ '
-- specify filename format
SELECT @fileDate = CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),112) + ' - ' + REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),108),' : ', '' )
DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR 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