Maintenance Plan for clean up old backup

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Maintenance Plan for clean up old backup

msn29

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September 15, 2010 at 6:22 pm

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Hi,
I created a simple Maintenance plan to delete .bak file older then 7 days and .dif file older then 2 days.
The job created by this maintenance plan history says job ran successfully but backups files are still there. Is anyone come across this issue ? Any idea ? Any suggestion ?
Cheers,

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homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55548 More actions · Answer 1

When you specify that it should delete .BAK files, do not inlude the "." (dot, or period) in the extension .... just BAK

Adiga One Orange Chip Points: 27284 More actions · Answer 2

Yes. Most likely you would have entered .BAK. This is one of the changes in SQL Server 2005 from SQL Server 2000

Pradeep Adiga
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msn29 SSC Veteran Points: 249 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks for reply guys,

Yes I am aware about that and I entered bak and dif without dot.

SkyBVI SSCoach Points: 15128 More actions · Answer 4

@ msn

This is the biggest drawback of maintenance plans. It happens many times.

check whether the sql agent has access to that backup directory?

Also, look out for Maintenance plan logs or sql server logs.

What does it tell there ?

Regards,

Sushant

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Sushant Kumar
MCTS,MCP

Adiga One Orange Chip Points: 27284 More actions · Answer 5

@msn29,

Does the backup task has "Create a sub directory for every database" option selected? If yes, then the "Include first-level subfolders" option needs to be selected in Maintenance Cleanup Task

Pradeep Adiga
Blog: sqldbadiaries.com
Twitter: @pradeepadiga

YTZ SSCommitted Points: 1707 More actions · Answer 6

I have the same problem. I changed BAK to bak, then it works.

msn29 SSC Veteran Points: 249 More actions · Answer 7

Thanks guys,

Sorry for late reply as it seems like we are in different time zone.

@skybvi

yes I checked SQLAGent have access to backup directory.

There is no detail in maintenence plan history.

@Adiga

yes the option for first level folder is selected.

Also tried BAK replcae with bak

Any other idea ?

Cheers,

SkyBVI SSCoach Points: 15128 More actions · Answer 8

@ msn

If the subfolders option is selected, then you have to mention that individual folder in the maintenece clean up task.

Did you do that?

Regards,

Sushant

Regards
Sushant Kumar
MCTS,MCP

Meet George Jetson SSChampion Points: 11611 More actions · Answer 9

What SP is SQL Server at? It was a bug in RTM and I think also SP 1 that the Maintenance Cleanup would did not work. You need to have SQL at 9.00.3042 or higher.

Select @@version will supply this information

Chris Powell

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msn29 SSC Veteran Points: 249 More actions · Answer 10

Hi Chris,

Current version is Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.4262.00 (X64)

Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)

Cheers,