With SQL 2005 Standard Edition, you can create a "Maintenance Job" to backup
on schedule, or you can create a SQL Agent Job to execute a SQL Backup
command.

SQL Backup is quite robust, and you may be OK without any other software.

--
Arnie Rowland, Ph.D.
Westwood Consulting, Inc

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Most experience comes from bad judgment.
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"William Cheung" <chun_hei@msn.com> wrote in message
news:Ox1xeyjAHHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Dear All,
>
> does sql2005(std.) have any tools for backup whole database to file for
> other Backup software backup?
>
> thx,
> William
>