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  • March 21, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    #233514

    In my maitenance plan for back up, I have a step to delete the history backups. We have a drive with a backup folder just used for backup files.

    So in the maitenance plan when I chose the clean up history files, in the extension field, if I want to delete all the files in the G:\backup folders which are older than two weeks. What extension can I put to the extension field. Should I put * or *.*

    I want to include all the file extensions in the folder which include .bak, .trn, .diff.

    Thanks

  • March 22, 2011 at 8:32 am

    #1301907

    I think you will need a cleanup step for each individual extension. And don't include the "dot" ..... use TRN, not .TRN

    Also, be sure you are on at least SP3 to avoid earlier bugs.

  • March 25, 2011 at 8:23 am

    #1303623

    I have seen many times that maintenance plans do not completely delete files or throws error. so i would suggest you to write a seperate job may be using vbscript or powershell to delete old backup files.

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