From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Tim Ritberg (tim@server.invalid) writes:   
   > I tried this, with different account formats: domain\user, user, user@   
   >   
   > sqlcmd -H office2 -U user -Q "BACKUP DATABASE [contura] TO DISK =   
   > N'/var/backup/demodb.bak' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = 'demodb-full',   
   > SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10"   
   >   
   > Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server :   
   > Translated: "login error with user "user""   
      
   And where do you get this name "user" from? I mean, since the server   
   apparently is a user, there ia a user that can log in. Why not use that one?   
      
   It seems that you are running SQLCMD from a Linux box. On what OS does   
   SQL Server Express run?   
      
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