Estimate backup size

To get a quick estimate of the full backup size of our user databases – for planning – I ran this across production and pasted ‘database_name’ and ‘reserved’ into a spreadsheet.

EXECUTE master.sys.sp_MSforeachdb 'USE [?]; if db_id()>4 EXEC sp_spaceused'

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