Database Back Up using Powershell

Hi Team,

I am trtying to take back up using poweshell

Below is the command which we are trying to execute,

Backup-SqlDatabase -ServerInstance "SERVER\DEFAULT" -Database "AFC" -BackupFile "\\REMOTESERVER\temp123\$dbName.bak"

However when we are trying to execute the same we are getting below error

Backup-SqlDatabase : Failed to connect to server 10.254.5.37\DEFAULT.

At line:1 char:1

+ Backup-SqlDatabase -ServerInstance "10.254.5.37\DEFAULT" -Database "A ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Backup-SqlDatabase], ConnectionFailureException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ConnectionFailureException,Microsoft.SqlServer.Man

agement.PowerShell.BackupSqlDatabaseCommand

However when we are trying to execute Get-ChildItem command we are gettting names of all databases.

Please help us.

Regards,

Pradeep

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