Guess I'll never know what ends up happening with this one. We 'fired' this guy as a customer the other day when his demands became more and more ridiculous...

Well, like I say, it was well documented that this wasn't a great idea and I'm not responsible for the outcome, so I have no problem sleeping.

BTW, I mistakenly thought...

The story on this guy is that he wants the data secure in case his machines are stolen, so the thumb drive is one of those IronKey encrypted things that...

Well, we have as of 9am Eastern embarked on this long strange trip. I'll let you know how it goes and I suspect down the road tell you how...

Plenty of disk space (new server with gads of space). And it is creating backups that are good (restored one to make sure).

I was always under the impression that expiration only affects when a backup can be overwritten, which is separate from the clean up task.

Not to fear, there is substantial documentation and a string of emails back and forth speaking of how dumb this is and what can happen, including the fact that there...

Well, we are forging ahead with this idiotic plan, as he tells me it's his money and he should get what he wants for his money. Let's not even...

cphite (6/21/2015)

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Try opening the maintenance plan in BIDS and run it manually... disable the other steps if you prefer, but see if it'll perform the delete. If it...

Deleting manually is fine for older ones, but these are ones it should be deleting on its own. In other words it should never have more than 1 day...

cphite (6/19/2015)

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I had this problem a while back and it was aggravating the heck out of me... in the end, it turned out to be pretty simple and stupid:...

Retention time is 1 day and the existing backups are recent. I've tried deleting all the backups in the folder, letting it do it's thing for a week and...

When I get access to the machine again I can get screenshots, but to give you an idea, I set up maintenance plans such as this pretty regularly (at least...

I absolutely agree it's a bad idea. I've spent considerable time explaining why this shouldn't be done, yet he just won't give up the idea. He does understand...