Steve,

Thanks for your comments.

I had the assumption that the History Cleanup was only to purge the information from the msdb and the Maintenance Cleanup was to purge the actual...

Thanks so much, Matt. I didn't know about the forfiles command. My server is running 2003, but my desktop is running 2000 - maybe that's why I didn't...

Sorry it didn't help.

May I ask how you did the script file to delete files aged > certain date? Maybe I could use that to get rid of my...

I had a problem with the cleanup not purging my .bak and .trn files. I STILL have a problem with it not deleting the .txt files that it creates...

Estuardo,

If the file you have is really the db file, you may want to try the following:

- create a db on new server with the exact name as this 'backup...