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I've tried googling for this. The problem is that the all the results are about using SQL Server Agent to schedule automatic backups.

How do I backup the SQL Server Agent configuration itself? If my database machine fails, I will need to recreate all the SQL Server Agent jobs that are currently defined. Is all this information stored in the Master database and is a restore of that database all that is required to get the SQl Server Agent jobs back?

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They are actually all in the msdb database. However, it's not advisable to simply restored msdb over the existing one. The best solution is to script the jobs out on a weekly baseis. Take a look at this for some example steps on how to backup/restore jobs

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic749226-146-1.aspx#bm749280

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  • +1 Deleted my answer, as this one is much more complete.
    – Matt M
    Commented Sep 23, 2011 at 20:06
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    Scripting out your jobs can be added management if you have a large number of jobs. I would probalby just increase the number of backups to msdb if changes are made freqently. Which you could just do a trigger or something to catch when a new job is added, then fire off a backup (not that I've done this).
    – user507
    Commented Sep 23, 2011 at 20:14
  • Is it possible to set up a sql agent job to script out all the sql agent jobs each week? 1/2 ;^)
    – randomfactor
    Commented Sep 23, 2011 at 20:23

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