Clean old backup with retaindays

Hi,
i have 3 sql server, one with sql2000 and other with sql2005.
on each server i have a maintenance plan. this plan save all base to a
network share on another server.
all plans have the option retaindays at 2.
the sql2000 server clean correctly the old backup. but the sql2005 servers
don' t do it.
all the sql service are running under the same account.
i applied patch on a sql2005 at 3152, the other is always at 3042. but
nothing change.
everydays i muste clean manually the backup...retaindays don't work!
someone have an idea about this bug ?
Ty
ChristopheChristophe,
It's not a bug, it's a feature. :) I assume that you are using the
Maintenance Plans. One thing to know is that the option RETAINDAYS does not
actually delete anything, it is just marking the file to tell SQL Server not
to overwrite this file before the retain time is up.
If you are using SQL 2000 Legacy Maintenance Plans, check the Complete
Backup and Transaction Log Backup tabs and make sure that "Remove files
older than" is set.
If you are using SQL 2005 Maintenance plans, you also need to include the
Maintenance Cleanup task to specify file deletions.
RLF
"Christophe" <Christophe@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C14216B5-32AA-4D94-972C-122D864DEA51@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> i have 3 sql server, one with sql2000 and other with sql2005.
> on each server i have a maintenance plan. this plan save all base to a
> network share on another server.
> all plans have the option retaindays at 2.
> the sql2000 server clean correctly the old backup. but the sql2005 servers
> don' t do it.
> all the sql service are running under the same account.
> i applied patch on a sql2005 at 3152, the other is always at 3042. but
> nothing change.
> everydays i muste clean manually the backup...retaindays don't work!
> someone have an idea about this bug ?
> Ty
> Christophe|||ty very much ! ;)
"Russell Fields" wrote:
> Christophe,
> It's not a bug, it's a feature. :) I assume that you are using the
> Maintenance Plans. One thing to know is that the option RETAINDAYS does not
> actually delete anything, it is just marking the file to tell SQL Server not
> to overwrite this file before the retain time is up.
> If you are using SQL 2000 Legacy Maintenance Plans, check the Complete
> Backup and Transaction Log Backup tabs and make sure that "Remove files
> older than" is set.
> If you are using SQL 2005 Maintenance plans, you also need to include the
> Maintenance Cleanup task to specify file deletions.
> RLF
>
> "Christophe" <Christophe@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C14216B5-32AA-4D94-972C-122D864DEA51@.microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have 3 sql server, one with sql2000 and other with sql2005.
> > on each server i have a maintenance plan. this plan save all base to a
> > network share on another server.
> > all plans have the option retaindays at 2.
> > the sql2000 server clean correctly the old backup. but the sql2005 servers
> > don' t do it.
> > all the sql service are running under the same account.
> > i applied patch on a sql2005 at 3152, the other is always at 3042. but
> > nothing change.
> >
> > everydays i muste clean manually the backup...retaindays don't work!
> > someone have an idea about this bug ?
> >
> > Ty
> > Christophe
>
>