What is a simple command line program or script to backup SQL server databases?

Question

I\'ve been too lax with performing DB backups on our internal servers.

Is there a simple command line program that I can use to backup certain databases in SQL Serv

Answer 1

I'm using tsql on a Linux/UNIX infrastructure to access MSSQL databases. Here's a simple shell script to dump a table to a file:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
#.....
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tsql -S {database} -U {user} -P {password} <{output_file.dump}