Ok, many thanks for your help, much appreciated.

Sorry, perhaps I haven't been clear. All I want to know is whether it is better to have lots of separate backup jobs (i.e. one for each database) or one...

I'm backing up to a USB external disk. Network is 100Mbps.

There are 6 databases, 5 of them are between 50MB and 100MB and aren't used intensively, the sixth is about 500MB and is written to all day.

We have a SQL server that houses all our testing databases (there are a lot) and all our backups are held on a different server. We mapped a drive on...