Nothing very important but I often see that for customers everything you can put inside a program, maybe in some menu -> backup / restore, is more "secure" than a...

One scenario that I can realize is that you are using an SQL Express that doesn't provide you Maintanance Plans and other.

However if you need to give a backup...

I use it too but I think that it is more easy to get errors without notification during the operation with SMO.

Nice code but how can I check if everything goes correcty? Is there any error code returned?