"Could not find stored procedure 'master.dbo.xp_delete_file'

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"Could not find stored procedure 'master.dbo.xp_delete_file'

NviDia

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March 17, 2011 at 12:32 pm

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Hi Experts,
Using maintenance plan, i'm using sqlserver 2005 to backup & purge older backup for sqlserver 2000 i'm facing this error.
"Could not find stored procedure 'master.dbo.xp_delete_file'
The Schedule can take the backup but fails while purging. It seems, sqlserver 2000 donot have this procedure.
Can anyone guide me, how can I achieve this tasks from sqlserver 2005 ; as I'm centrally managing backup from this version.
Thanks.

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homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55548 More actions · Answer 1

Maybe you could make a 2000 Maint Plan just to delete the old files, and keep your 2005 plan for the backups.

NviDia SSC Veteran Points: 296 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for the idea.

Though I got another idea , ie to create connection from 2005 instance to do the same task on 2000 instance.

It worked !

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 3

.dbo.xp_delete_file' is actually implimented as a DDL named xpstar90.dll.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

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ddezwaan SSC Enthusiast Points: 102 More actions · Answer 4

"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. " - Words to live by!

I have found putting this in a batch file and scheduled task is quite effective;

forfiles -p "C:\SQLBACKUP\Differential" -s -m *.* /D -2 /C "cmd /c del @path"

Fred Stemp SSChasing Mays Points: 645 More actions · Answer 5

Not sure this helps, but I have several 2000 servers in Production still and I had to right a couple of queries to do my incremental backups and delete files after a certain period of time.

For a single database:

DECLARE @date varchar (14),

@DBName_Path varchar (255),

@File varchar (260),

@cmd varchar (255),

@database varchar(25)

set @date = convert (varchar(12) , getdate(), 112) + substring (convert (varchar(12) , getdate(), 114),1,2) + substring (convert (varchar(12) , getdate(), 114),4,2) + substring(convert (varchar(12) , getdate(), 114),7,2)

set @DBName_Path = 'Z:\Backups\DATA\<Your DBName>\<Your DBName>_Incremental_' + @date + '.BAK'

set @database = 'ImageRight'

select @DBName_Path, @database

BACKUP LOG @database TO DISK = @DBName_Path

GO

xp_cmdshell 'forfiles /p Z:\Backups\DATA\<Your Folder>\ /m *.bak /c "cmd /c del @file " /d -8'

For multiple databases:

USE master

DECLARE @DBName VARCHAR(100)

-- CURSOR to lookup DBNames in master DB excluding system DBs in results set

DECLARE DBBackup_Cursor CURSOR LOCAL STATIC FOR

-- Get DBNames for CURSOR

SELECT CATALOG_NAME

FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA

WHERE CATALOG_NAME NOT IN ('master', 'tempdb', 'model', 'msdb')

ORDER BY CATALOG_NAME

-- Start CURSOR

OPEN DBBackup_Cursor

FETCH NEXT FROM DBBackup_Cursor INTO @DBName

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0

BEGIN

FETCH NEXT FROM DBBackup_Cursor INTO @DBName

-- Incremntal Backup Process

DECLARE @date VARCHAR (14),

@DBName_Path VARCHAR (255),

@File VARCHAR (260),

@cmd VARCHAR (255),

@database VARCHAR(100),

@FileDelete VARCHAR(100)

set @date = CONVERT (VARCHAR(12) , GETDATE(), 112) + SUBSTRING (CONVERT (VARCHAR(12) , GETDATE(), 114),1,2) + SUBSTRING (CONVERT (VARCHAR(12) , GETDATE(), 114),4,2) + SUBSTRING(CONVERT (VARCHAR(12) , GETDATE(), 114),7,2)

set @DBName_Path = 'F:\BACKUP\DATA\' + @DBName + '\' + @DBName + '_Incremental_' + @date + '.BAK'

set @database = @DBName

-- This will display path and filename during a test

-- select @DBName_Path, @database

-- For testing path, comment out the below line prior to executing script

BACKUP LOG @database TO DISK = @DBName_Path

-- To test comment out the below line prior to executing script

SET @FileDelete = 'xp_cmdshell' + '''' + ('forfiles /p F:\BACKUP\DATA\') + @DBName + '\ /m *.bak /c "cmd /c del @file " /d -8'''

EXECUTE (@FileDelete)

FETCH NEXT FROM DBBackup_Cursor INTO @DBName

-- Uncomment to test xp_cmdshell command is formated fcorrectly

-- SET @FileDelete = SET @FileDelete = 'xp_cmdshell' + '''' + ('forfiles /p F:\BACKUP\DATA\') + @DBName + '\ /m *.bak /c "cmd /c del @file " /d -8'''

-- SELECT @FileDelete

-- CURSOR END

END

CLOSE DBBackup_Cursor

DEALLOCATE DBBackup_Cursor

I put each of these in as Steps in a Job and they are working without issue. If these help out, I'd love to hear. Good luck!

Frederick (Fred) J. Stemp, Jr.
Database Administrator / Database Developer
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