SQL server 2005 backup statistic
One of the slickest ways I've seen to control backups is Ola Hallengren's free maintenance script solution:

http://ola.hallengren.com/

It's installed as a series of stored procs in Master that do all kinds of nifty utility tasks.  It'll automatically handle newly added databases, leverages third party backup compression tools, and does index rebuilds/defrags too.