SQL Server Automated Backups

What are the recommendations of software products for creating automated backups of SQL Server 2008 databases?

The backup should happen without taking the database offline/detatching.

From stackoverflow

• I would recommend just creating a maintenance plan in SQL Server to handle the backups, it can be configured to backup to a specified location at specified times, without taking the databases offline, and will handle your incremental backup cleanup.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189715.aspx

• If you are using SQL Server Express, you wont find a UI to run periodic backups.
  In this case you have to run a batch using Windows Scheduled Tasks or something similar.

  Don't forget to use an user with enough privileges to access SQL Server

  In the batch file

  "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE" -S 
  (local)\SQLExpress -i D:\dbbackups\SQLExpressBackups.sql
  

  In SQLExpressBackups.sql

  BACKUP DATABASE MyDataBase1 TO  DISK = N'D:\DBbackups\MyDataBase1.bak' 
  WITH NOFORMAT, INIT,  NAME = N'MyDataBase1 Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10
  
  BACKUP DATABASE MyDataBase2 TO  DISK = N'D:\DBbackups\MyDataBase2.bak' 
  WITH NOFORMAT, INIT,  NAME = N'MyDataBase2 Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10
  
  GO
  

• Try to use SQL backup and FTP (http://sqlbackupandftp.com)