Deleting backups when they are a week old.

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Deleting backups when they are a week old.

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June 17, 2008 at 9:54 am

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I have a maintenance plan which does a full backup every day except Saturday and Sunday. Each backup has the name of the database and then the date of the backup appended to it every day. I have a maintenance cleanup task to search files in this folder with a .BAK extension and delete them if they are a week old. The maintenance plan is not deleting the backups at all. Is it because the date is appended to the backup? What do I need to do to delete the backup if it's older than a week?
Should I use backup set will expire within the full backup maintenance plan?

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New_to_being_DBA SSCrazy Points: 2064 More actions · Answer 1

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June 17, 2008 at 10:00 am

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I forgot to add that I am using sql 2005.

MANU-J. SSC-Dedicated Points: 31126 More actions · Answer 2

Make sure that you have not include the “.” in the file extension.

Go thru this:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic361562-149-1.aspx

Manu

Erin. SSCertifiable Points: 5237 More actions · Answer 3

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June 18, 2008 at 7:14 am

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Can you use the Maintenance Cleanup Task?

Manoj-485464 SSCrazy Points: 2717 More actions · Answer 4

Correct Erin, You Can use Cleanup task in SQL 2005. Make sure that .bak, .dif and .trn all should be seprate and schedule as the timeframe you required. 🙂

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homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55548 More actions · Answer 5

Wasn't there a problem with the Maint Plan Cleanup Task not working correctly ?? I think I heard that SP2 fixes that.

Ambuj Mathur SSC Eights! Points: 892 More actions · Answer 6

I have setup a new maintenance cleanup task in SP2 without any issues. The problem exists only while specifying the expiry of BackUp set while creating a new backup schedule job and not in the CleanUp task. Please check if the extension has been clearly specified alongwith the location/path of the backup files.

New_to_being_DBA SSCrazy Points: 2064 More actions · Answer 7

I removed the *.* Hopefully it will work now. If not I found a vb script that deletes old files. I also heard there was a problem with the maintenace plans. So, we'll see. THank you for your input.