Hi
I
have created a job to backup all our database. It works fine and
creates .bak files in default folder. I have scheduled the task to run
every 4 hours.
My question is how can i modify or program this
backup plan to keep the backup files for only last 3 days and delete
older backup files?
Mits
Hi,
I need to calculate the number of working days from a date backwards. For example 2 working days before Thursday would be the Tuesday (as a basic example)
I use the following code and a Calendar table to calculate the working days from a date but can anyone help with reworking this query to do the reverse
declare @WorkingDate as datetime
SELECT @WorkingDate=dt
FROM tblCalendar AS c
WHERE (@WorkingDays =
(SELECT COUNT(*) AS Expr1
FROM tblCalendar AS c2
WHERE (dt >= @StartDate) AND (dt <= c.dt) AND (IsWeekday = 1) AND (IsHoliday = 0))) AND (IsWeekday = 1)
AND (IsHoliday = 0)
-- Return the result of the function
RETURN convert(varchar(12),@WorkingDate,106)
Hope someone can help
Thanks
Folks:
I want to delete files on windows from a directory which are 2 days old. I understand we can do that using xp_cmdshell. Anybody with a script would really help me.
Thanks !
I have to download the files from SFTP server, for which i am using WINSCP and i am able to successfully automate the process to download the files. But it is downloading all the files instead of only current day's files. Ihave searched for WINSCP documentation for time query parameter to pass to the get command. But its not working.
My source file name contains Datefield as "Filenameexample_150120_N001.txt".
Here 150120 mean Jan 20 2015.
Winscp has no functionality to query the files to parse using datefield. how to look for files which are from today's date.
Currently i am downloading files which contain *.* (meaning all files).
Friends -
I am looking for a windows script (bat file) to delete backup files which are older than 2 days.
Please provide scripts on this.
Appreciate your support
Cheers :)
Satish
I am using the backup task and backing up a database but want to delete all backup files older than 5 days old. I am using the file task for this and have built the path in a variable but am trying to use a wildcard for the time. I am getting illegal character in path. How can I go about this.
I currently have E:MSSQL.1MSSQLBackupdatabasename_backup_20070309*.bak in my input variable and am trying to delete the file databasename_backup_200703091532.bak
hi..
I had to re-install my operation system.. and I did
I had no time to backup my sql data..
to reinstall OS was surprise for me!
I opened my computer but my OS didn't start
now, mssql datas are another partition.
they are like below
Quote: tbl1_Data.MDF
tbl1_Log.LDF
Quote: tbl2_Data.MDF
tbl2_Log.LDF
is there any way to use them again
I installed mssql in new OS, I picked the folder that has my old datas as my new SQL data folder..
but it doesn't work..
I want to delete all files in a given folder that are older than 3 days from today's date.
I tried using a "Foreach Loop container" with a "File System" task inside it but found I couldn't access any file properties such as the file creation date. Am I using the wrong task for this job?
TIA,
Barkingdog
P.S. History of the problem:
I used the sql 2005 Database maintenance program to setup our database backup jobs. One day I noticed that the free space on the drive where we keep the dumps had grown small. I found that we had at least 4 weeks of dumps in there, not the 3 days I wanted to keep! I looked but could not find the "delete file" option in the SSIS package generated by the Database Maintenance Wizard. No wonder the files were piling up.
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Regards
I am trying to figure out how the back up is performed on my sql as I seem to have quite a few very large BAK files that I want to know if I can delete them.
These files have grown to about 85Gs
The IT group told me that the were going to set up the SQL to back up as a file and then SBS 2003 would back up this file onto the USB drive. The IT people that set this up have really sold me a lot of BS about so much that I have decided to get control of all aspect of the SBS2003.
How to I verify that the SQL is being backed up and can I delete these really big old dated BAK files?
Thanks Kevin..
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Greetings from Mannheim, Germany
Ricardo
I have an SQL code below which removes weekends and non working days when calculating days difference between two dates:
ce.enquiry_time represents when the enquiry was logged
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In the first step of my SSIS package I need to get files from FTP and dump it/them in a local directory, but it's more than that, the logic is like this:
1. If no file(s) found, stop executing and send email saying no file(s) found;
2. If file(s) found, then compare it/them with existing files in our archive folder; if file(s) already exist in archive folder, stop executing and send email saying file(s) already existed, if file(s) not in archive folder yet, then transfer it/them to the local directory for processing.
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Thanks for the help in advance and i apologize for the long lines of code!
example for step 1:
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' Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Script Task
' Write scripts using Microsoft Visual Basic
' The ScriptMain class is the entry point of the Script Task.
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem
Imports System.IO.FileSystemInfo
Public Class ScriptMain
' The execution engine calls this method when the task executes.
' To access the object model, use the Dts object. Connections, variables, events,
' and logging features are available as static members of the Dts class.
' Before returning from this method, set the value of Dts.TaskResult to indicate success or failure.
'
' To open Code and Text Editor Help, press F1.
' To open Object Browser, press Ctrl+Alt+J.
Public Sub Main()
Dim cDataFileName As String
Dim cFileType As String
Dim cFileFlgVar As String
WriteVariable("SCFileFlg", False)
WriteVariable("OOFileFlg", False)
WriteVariable("INFileFlg", False)
WriteVariable("IAFileFlg", False)
WriteVariable("RCFileFlg", False)
cDataFileName = ReadVariable("DataFileName").ToString
cFileType = Left(Right(cDataFileName, 4), 2)
cFileFlgVar = cFileType.ToUpper + "FileFlg"
WriteVariable(cFileFlgVar, True)
Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success
End Sub
Private Sub WriteVariable(ByVal varName As String, ByVal varValue As Object)
Try
Dim vars As Variables
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite(varName)
Dts.VariableDispenser.GetVariables(vars)
Try
vars(varName).Value = varValue
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
Finally
vars.Unlock()
End Try
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try
End Sub
Private Function ReadVariable(ByVal varName As String) As Object
Dim result As Object
Try
Dim vars As Variables
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForRead(varName)
Dts.VariableDispenser.GetVariables(vars)
Try
result = vars(varName).Value
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
Finally
vars.Unlock()
End Try
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try
Return result
End Function
End Class
example for step 2:
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' Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Script Task
' Write scripts using Microsoft Visual Basic
' The ScriptMain class is the entry point of the Script Task.
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime
Public Class ScriptMain
' The execution engine calls this method when the task executes.
' To access the object model, use the Dts object. Connections, variables, events,
' and logging features are available as static members of the Dts class.
' Before returning from this method, set the value of Dts.TaskResult to indicate success or failure.
'
' To open Code and Text Editor Help, press F1.
' To open Object Browser, press Ctrl+Alt+J.
Public Sub Main()
Try
'Create the connection to the ftp server
Dim cm As ConnectionManager = Dts.Connections.Add("FTP")
'Set the properties like username & password
cm.Properties("ServerName").SetValue(cm, "ftp.name.com")
cm.Properties("ServerUserName").SetValue(cm, "username")
cm.Properties("ServerPassword").SetValue(cm, "password")
cm.Properties("ServerPort").SetValue(cm, "21")
cm.Properties("Timeout").SetValue(cm, "0") 'The 0 setting will make it not timeout
cm.Properties("ChunkSize").SetValue(cm, "1000") '1000 kb
cm.Properties("Retries").SetValue(cm, "1")
'create the FTP object that sends the files and pass it the connection created above.
Dim ftp As FtpClientConnection = New FtpClientConnection(cm.AcquireConnection(Nothing))
'Connects to the ftp server
ftp.Connect()
'ftp.SetWorkingDirectory("..")
ftp.SetWorkingDirectory("directoryname")
Dim folderNames() As String
Dim fileNames() As String
ftp.GetListing(folderNames, fileNames)
Dim maxname As String = ""
For Each filename As String In fileNames
' whatever operation you need to do to find the correct file...
Next
Dim files(0) As String
files(0) = maxname
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' Close the ftp connection
ftp.Close()
'Set the filename you retreive for use in data flow
Dts.Variables.Item("FILENAME").Value = maxname
Catch ex As Exception
Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Failure
End Try
Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success
End Sub
End Class
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emoteservershareDIFF" &&(
forfiles -m *DIFF*.sqb -d -1 -c "cmd /c del /q @path"
) & PopD
It works remotely if I run it via command prompt. But when I add this to a TSQL job on my remote SQL instance, it runs without deleting anything. What I'm missing?
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