What Happened to my BACKUPSET System table Data ??

  • I swear I had a lot of history in that table, 9 months or so, but now it only goes back to 10-14-2008 ?!?! I can't find any jobs or settings that delete from that table. 1 other server also has 3 months, and 3 other servers go back a couple of years.

  • Is it possible that the database had to be rebuilt, or anything like that?

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  • No, it looks like all databases only go back 3 months on 2 of 5 servers. I can't remember any event on both servers from that time that would have affected it ...

  • Do you keep a journal or log of server events or anything of that sort? Do you have any sort of audit trail on that data? If no to both, you may never know what happened.

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  • Is there Maintenance History Cleanup task in any of the Maint. Plan?

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