Backup.BackupSetDescription Property

Gets or sets a textual description for a particular backup set.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended (in Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property BackupSetDescription As String 
    Get 
    Set
'Usage
Dim instance As Backup 
Dim value As String 

value = instance.BackupSetDescription

instance.BackupSetDescription = value
public string BackupSetDescription { get; set; }
public:
property String^ BackupSetDescription {
    String^ get ();
    void set (String^ value);
}
member BackupSetDescription : string with get, set
function get BackupSetDescription () : String 
function set BackupSetDescription (value : String)

Property Value

Type: System.String
A String value that contains a textual description of the backup set. By default, the value is an empty string.

Remarks

The BackupSetDescription property value is limited to 255 characters.

Examples

VB

'Connect to the local, default instance of SQL Server.
Dim srv As Server
srv = New Server
'Reference the AdventureWorks2012 database.
Dim db As Database
db = srv.Databases("AdventureWorks2012")
'Define a Backup object variable. 
Dim bk As New Backup
'Specify the description of the database to be backed up.
bk.BackupSetDescription = "Full backup of AdventureWorks2012"
bk.Database = "AdventureWorks2012"

PowerShell

$srv = new-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server("(local)")
$db = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Database
$db = $srv.Databases.Item("AdventureWorks2012")
$bk = new-object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Backup
$bk.BackupSetDescription = "Full backup of AdventureWorks2012"
$bk.Database = "AdventureWorks2012"

See Also

Reference

Backup Class

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

BACKUP (Transact-SQL)