I have created some backups where expiration dates or days to be
retained were not specified.
Using EM, how do I find the old backups.
Using EM, how do I delete the old backups (hoping this will
clean up the MSDB tables and physically delete the files
from disk).
Thanks!!!!
Such a simple task. Not doing as it should!!
This Maintenance Cleanup Task is set to delete all BAK and TRN files it's made (in seperate maintenance plans) in given path, with the given file extension, delete files based on the age of the file at task run time. Delete files older that 4 days.
The files are now backing up for months and months. I'm not going to take care of this. I've got a computer to do this for me, every time it runs its jobs, every 4 hours and once overnight.
This is ignoring commands and refusing to do as it's told. I've checked the settings in here over and over. It's so simple - what could be wrong? I've checked the path, the file age, the extensions... The disks are getting full!
Has anyone seen anything like this?
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
I have a database and I see that I have a lot of TRN files behind it taking up more than 82GB disk space.I have a TRN file from Jan until today. I plan to delete every one of them until April to recover 59 GB of disk space. Would that be OK?
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...Consequently, we forget to go out and remove the files manually, thus we lose backups due to the drive being full and have to manually remove files, then backup the databases and start all over again.
Has anybody had this problem and can you tell me where to look to try and figure out what the problem is ??
Thanks in advance,
Nancy
I have a backup job that has failed.
The database size is 20.6 GB and the Transaction logs are 135MB
The amount of disk space I have left is 3.65MB. Which I know is not going to work.
However on the maintenance plan it is suppose to remove files older than 1 day.
I am wondering if a job works like this:
Step 1 create backup file
Step 2 Create Transaction Log Back up
Step 3 Delete old backup file
Step 4 Delete old Transaction log back up
Which tell me I would need to have double amount of disk space to accommodate 2 20 GB backup file and 2 135MB Transaction log file.
Is this correct??
Also is there a way that I can have step 3,4 done first.
Lystra
i have a maintenance plan running on my database, in which I told the wizard, on creation, to "remove files older than 4 week" and yet it doesn't seem to be doing so, as on checking this morning, diskspace was getting low, due to over 300gb of backups and trn' dating back to september.
Anyone have ny problems with maintenance plans not cleaning up when told?
a
Hi,
I have posted a request regarding deleting the file more than 1 month old that we have discussed in bleow URL.
http://forums.databasejournal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29895
My new request is I have enabled C2 Audit mode and wanted to delete old files that is more than 200MB.
Could you Please give me a query ?.
Thanks,
Ravi
I get the following error when I try to delete files using the FTP client in a SSIS package. This is the error I get.
Error: 0xC002918E at FTP Task, FTP Task: Unable to delete remote files using "FTP Connection Manager".
Task failed: FTP Task
This is a unix server. I'm able to delete the files using other FTP clients but the FTP client in the SSIS package cannot delete the files. I read on many places on the interent that this is a known MS bug. Let me know if there is some sort of work around for this. I'm using SQL servewr 2005 SSIS packages to accomplish this task..
Thanks
I have the need to delete old backup files via TSQL job. Found this solution online:
PushD "
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?
I have three FileStreams (FS1 on F drive, FS2 on H drive, FS3 on E drive) belonging to the same FileStream group of one particular database (DB) which is in Simple recovery mode in the SQL Server 2012.
FS1 contains huge number of files due to which F drive is completely full.
So, I am trying to move some of the extra files from one FileStream (FS1 on F drive) to another FileStreams (FS2 on H drive and FS3 on E drive) using command:
dbcc shrinkfile('FS1', emptyfile)
Then, I take the Full and Differential backup of the database and issue the CheckPoint and try to delete the already duplicated files from the Filestream FS1 to get some space in the F drive using command:
sp_filestream_force_garbage_collection @dbname = 'DB' , @filename = 'FS1'
But still no files get deleted and I receive the output as such:
file_name num_collected_items num_marked_for_collection_items num_unprocessed_items last_collected_lsn
DB_FS1 0 0 0 25000001749500000
how to delete these already duplicated files.
I am running 2005 SP2 (It is the SP2 refresh as I downloaded the SP2 on 3/15/07) and I can't get the .txt maint plans to delete. The job completes successfully; however, the old .txt files are still there. I found this technote: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938085
although I don't receive the error message in the KB. The report does have "New Component Output" as the 1st line in the report. I still don't see how deleting the 1st line of an already run job (the report) will affect a new run of the job.
Also, I checked the version of the Microsoft.SqlServer.MaintenancePlanTasks.dll and it is at 9.00.3043.00 (which is the SP2 Refresh) in KB 933508 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933508 ).
I have several SQL/2005 servers and they all have this problem. Any help would be appreicated...
Thanks,
DeWayne
We had someone create an extra data file and log file for tempdb. Sowe currently have two data files and two log files. Is it possible todelete the newly created data and log files? If I just delete thephysical files, I assume they'll get created as soon as SQL Servergets started back up. Any help would be great, since a single dataand log file for tempdb is my goal.Thanks much.sean
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The creation of the final file works perfectly...unfortunately, my base files do not delete, and I do not get a failure message or indictator.
Here is my code:
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' 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 System.IO
Imports System.IO.File
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' The execution engine calls this method when the task executes.
' To access the object model, use the Dts object. Connections, variables, events,
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'
' To open Code and Text Editor Help, press F1.
' To open Object Browser, press Ctrl+Alt+J.
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Case 1
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Case 2
strCurrentMonth = "February"
Case 3
strCurrentMonth = "March"
Case 4
strCurrentMonth = "April"
Case 5
strCurrentMonth = "May"
Case 6
strCurrentMonth = "June"
Case 7
strCurrentMonth = "July"
Case 8
strCurrentMonth = "August"
Case 9
strCurrentMonth = "September"
Case 10
strCurrentMonth = "October"
Case 11
strCurrentMonth = "November"
Case 12
strCurrentMonth = "December"
End Select
strCurrentYear = Year(Now()).ToString
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strWriteFileName = "\CUPSRV05SHAREDISPublicData ExportMatriaFiles TO Matriacup_ref_cup_" & strCurrentMonth & strCurrentYear & "_ftp_ReferralFormat.txt"
strReadHeaderFileName = "\CUPSRV05SHAREDISPublicData ExportMatriaFiles TO MatriaMatria_Referral_Control.txt"
strReadBodyFileName = "\CUPSRV05SHAREDISPublicData ExportMatriaFiles TO MatriaMatria_Referral.txt"
'create stream reader/writer objects
Dim sr As New StreamReader(strReadHeaderFileName)
Dim sr2 As New StreamReader(strReadBodyFileName)
Dim sw As New StreamWriter(strWriteFileName)
'feed the header record into the final file
Do Until sr.Peek = -1
'write the header record
sw.WriteLine(sr.ReadLine)
Loop
'close the read stream for the header record file
sr.Close()
'Feed the body records into the final file
Do Until sr2.Peek = -1
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sw.WriteLine(sr2.ReadLine)
Loop
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sr2.Close()
'close the write stream for the final distribution file
sw.Close()
'dispose of all stream objects
sr.Dispose()
sr2.Dispose()
sw.Dispose()
Dim EligBaseFile As New FileInfo("strReadBodyFileName")
Dim EligHeaderFile As New FileInfo("strReadHeaderFileName")
EligBaseFile.Delete() <--These do not delete or through an error
EligHeaderFile.Delete()
'final statement for SSIS package to determine script result
Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success
End Sub
End Class
I would appreciate any light you can shed on this. Thanks!
I have a transaction log which is backed up 5 times a day to a device.
The Transaction log is growing quite quickly in between each backup. The backup device is also growing at a much quicker rate.
realistically i would like to only keep 2 weeks worth of transaction log backups in the device.
for the transaction log backup i have tried the following transact-Sql
'Backup Log [imsv23] to [imsv23_TL_2] with RetainDays = 7, Init, NoUnload, Name = N'imsv23 TL V2', NoSkip,Stats=10,Noformat'
but due to all of the contents in the backup set not having expired the backup fails.
i need to reduce the size of the backup device. all of the backup sets have expiry dates but none of them are being deleted from device.
so my problem is 1 i need to remove the excessive backups from the device
2 i need to set up the automatic backups so that these datasets are removed when the expiry date is reached.
thanks in advance
I created a backup device and then scheduled a recurring backup of one of my SQL databases for SMS. I right-clicked on the database name and chose All Tasks | Backup and set a daily schedule.
Now I want to delete the whole thing and use Database Maintenance Plans instead. The backup device never showed up in Management | Backup so I deleted the backup files (and devices?) from NT Explorer. The backups still occur, I'm guessing, because I never deleted the Schedule. How do I get these backups to stop?
P.S. Forgive me if this is an elementary questions -- I am new to SQL.
Thanks.
Does anyone know a way of deleting old backup information? We'll shortly be in a position where SQL thinks we have got a certain number of backups whereas in fact the older ones will have been copied to tape & deleted. Apart from being misleading this must also be leaving redundant data in the system/control tables & I'd prefer not to have to look at increasing their size just because of this. Anyone got any tips? Thanks very much to the guys who have responded to my previous 2 questions, being new to SQL I certainly appreciate the help.
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USE [db_admin]
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('usp_DeleteBackup', 'P') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROC usp_DeleteBackup
GO
[Code] .....
We are doing a full backup at night. During the day we are doing a backup of the log every hour. How do I delete the log backups from the media without deleting the device itself. I would like to do this once we have a full backup for the day. The media we are backing up the logs to is disk.
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TIA
I have the following issue with Maintenance plan backups that work for BAK DIF and TRN to a remote server share.
When I try and remove the old files with a clean up task I get an error and the files don't get deleted.
The version is as follows
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3054.00 (X64) Mar 23 2007 18:41:50
Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on
Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)
The error result is as follows,
Failed-1073548784) Executing the query "EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file
0,N'\\EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'\ABCD-A1\BACKUPS\ABCD_BACKUP\ABC_DAILY\ABCD',N'trn',N'2008-01-13T12:52:49'" failed with the following error: "xp_delete_file() returned error 2, 'The
system cannot find the file specified.'". Possible failure reasons: Problems
with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set
correctly, or connection not established correctly.
The maintenance plan seems to be adding extra "" though when i enter the
code directly in a query i get same error.
Query:
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'\ABCD-A1BACKUPSABCD_BACKUPABC_DAILYABCD',N'trn',N'2008-01-13T12:52:49'
Error:
xp_delete_file() returned error 2, 'The system cannot find the file specified.'
The servers belong to the same domain and are using the same Service account which has all the necessary rights to the share and the file directory location. The backups work but i get the error on the cleanup task.
Trying to figure out how to get the Cleanup task to delete old files. The same happens for all file extensions and I have tried other locations with simpler file paths same error.
Regards,
Scott
Currently we use a SQL maintenance plan to do a full backup of all our databases daily (about 40 databases on our production server). As you can imagine, this eats up disk space quickly so currently we manually zip the backup files and/or move them to an archive drive. I considered writing an application to walk through the backup folder structure and zip any .bak file it finds, but I know there are some third party tools out there that will backup/restore a MS SQL database.
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I scheduled automatic backup process but its only showing backup of the only one .sql file in the backup folder. Other created .sql files are not backed up. Why is it so?
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Hi
i have to delete the master table data without deleting the child table records,is there any solution for this, parent table has relation with the child table.
regards
vinod.t.v
hello! can you take a look at my question?
We use ARCServe to backup exchange server file (priv1.stm and priv1.edb) every night. When I select both of the files and start to back up using ARCServe. It showed me that Backup Operation Successful.
When I check the files, it didn’t backup both of the files. I don’t know why. Do you know how to backup these two files?
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SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER proc [dbo].[ServiceLogPurge]
-- Purge records dbo.ServiceLog older than 3 months:
-- Purge records in small portions to avoid locking production tables
-- for a long time. The process takes longer, but can co-exist with
-- normal usage of the tables.
[Code] ...
*** Getting this error below when executing the code ***
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure ServiceLogPurge, Line 45
Incorrect syntax near 'Failed:'.
Hi All,I searched the archives but I could not find any useful stuff for me.I can backup a database on SQLExpress like USE masterEXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'Store_1', 'c:Store_1.dat'BACKUP DATABASE Store TO Store_1Here is my problem: If I use logins,roles etc. in an application automatically a mdf file is created. Or I can create a new sql database. SQLExpress dynamically use the mdf file when connection string defined. This mdf file is not defined as a database on SQLExpress. Because SQLExpress has not a gui, I cannot see the registered database. How can I backup any sqlexpress mdf file without deattaching or attaching?Thanks
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