Backups and Logs not being deleted in SQL 2K SP3 maint. plans

  • We've been having trouble with our SQL 2000 Servers not deleting the .bak and log files. We've set default the retention periods on all of our maint. plans but sometimes they don 't get deleted... and .... no one checks them... disks get full... need I say more?

    Is this a problem with corupt metadata? or is there a MS double-blind-secret-handshake that we need to know to make this work??

    How can we fix this ??

  • As Microsoft says:

    There could be lots of reasons for this. Most common reason is that the files are being locked out by another process like backup software

     

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/sql/sql0408.mspx

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