>Hey all
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>It's extremely easy to order SQL Server to do a backup via SPT.
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>I can monitor it's activity by checking the resulting backup (.BAK) file size from time to time.
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>What I want to do is obtain some kind of progress from SQL Server directly - including when the process has completed.
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>Lots of searching on google and in the help is not proving fruitful.

You probably won't find it because it's usually very fast and nobody bothers. I've seen it dump a gigabyte in a minute or less. Haven't really measured for quite a while; I know that the backup itself is the fast part (and I'm doing truncate as well at the same time). It takes me more time to get the backup copied where it should go.