History Cleanup Task not executed

  • Hello,

    I created a maintenance plan (in SSMS) with the tasks 'History Cleanup Task' and 'Maintenance Cleanup task'.

    The associated job returns 'failed' while the maintplan is success. If I look at the history of the maintplan, I dont see the task 'History Cleanup Task'!!!;-)

    If I execute the associated T-SQL, (declare @dt datetime select @dt = cast(N'2010-05-18T16:02:36' as datetime) exec msdb.dbo.sp_delete_backuphistory @dt

    GO

    EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_purge_jobhistory @oldest_date='2010-05-18T16:02:36'

    GO

    EXECUTE msdb..sp_maintplan_delete_log null,null,'2010-05-18T16:02:36'

    )there are deleted lines!!;-)

    Can anybody help me?

    Thank you

  • no idea???

  • If you have the job set to output to a log does that give you any information?

    Shawn Melton
    Twitter: @wsmelton
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  • Yes but unuseable 😀

    Job log :

    Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility

    Version 9.00.3042.00 for 32-bit

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved.

    Started: 17:17:42

    DTExec: The package execution returned DTSER_FAILURE (1).

    Started: 17:17:42

    Finished: 17:17:50

    Elapsed: 8.203 seconds

    MaintPlan log :

    NEW COMPONENT OUTPUT

    Microsoft(R) Server Maintenance Utility (Unicode) Version 9.0.3200

    Report was generated on "***".

    Maintenance Plan: test

    Duration: 00:00:07

    Status: Succeeded.

    Details:

    Maintenance Cleanup Task (srvgsysql02)

    Task start: 2010-06-17T17:17:48.

    Task end: 2010-06-17T17:17:48.

    Success

    😉

  • Did this job work prior? Are you aware of anything that changed if it did previously work (SP, CU installs)? Missed you stated you created it:-P

    Is this server a 64-bit server?

    DTExec: The package execution returned DTSER_FAILURE (1)

    Shawn Melton
    Twitter: @wsmelton
    Blog: wsmelton.github.com
    Github: wsmelton

  • Try changing the user the job is running under to 'sa'.

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  • Make sure the OS Backup is not conflicting as it folder is accesse by other os backup than also SQL Server won't able to delete the file.

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  • Hi,

    MeltonDBA : it's a 32-bit server.

    OomBoom : sa is the owner of the maint plan and the job.

    free_mascot : I tested at various hours and the problem is not that on the backup files but also in tables of the jobs and maintplans history

  • The next thing you can try is deleting the maint plan a recreating but do not create plan from remote pc, create the plan by logging on to the server with Remote Desktop.

    Then for good measure make sure your service account have rights to the package folder and any other folders you are working on.

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    Do not reinvent the wheel.
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  • The maintplan is already created directly on the server, I tried by creating another maintplan and it changes nothing.

    I even tried by starting the services in Local System and nothing changes

  • These kinds of issues are generally related to a mis-match between the client tools and the version of the server. Validate the version of the client tools is the same as the server (or greater).

    Also, there are known issues with maintenance plans and SQL Server 2005 SP2. There were several hotfixes to fix these issues. I would recommend upgraded to SP3 for both the server and client tools.

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