Problem With SQL Server Maintenance Cleanup Tasks
Nov 2, 2007
I've had problems trying to get a new maintenance plan on a new server to work.
I'm running a plan that does an integrity check, reindex, shrink, backup, the a maint cleanup to get rid of backups older than 2 weeks.
I'm getting failures that say:
Error Number
-1073548784
Error Message:
Executing the query "EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'',N'BAK',N'2007-10-18T18:43:41',1
" failed with the following error: "Error executing extended stored procedure: Invalid Parameter". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
Yes, this is a post SP2 server.
Current version, with the patches I've applied looking to fix this is: 9.0.3054
Additionally, if you go in to edit a maintenance cleanup task, you cannot click on OK, or the T-SQL. Changing values within it does not help.
Any clues?
charles@at@borner.us
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Sep 14, 2007
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003.
I have created an €˜Backup Database Task€™ to create the database backups and checked the option €œCreate a subdirectory for each database€?.
When I add the €œMaintenance Cleanup Task€? I am not getting the similar option to clean the backup files in the subdirectory.
Any suggestion on how to solve this?
I can always uncheck the €œCreate a subdirectory for each database€? option to create the backup files in one location.
Thank you,
Smith
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May 4, 2007
I have a backup database task that runs at 4 am.
I added a maintenance CleanUp task pointing to the right folder
I checked the include first-level subfolder box, and delete files based on the age of the file at task run time
I specified "delete files older than " 1 day
But the cleanup task is not working, I have to manually go a delete the files myself.
Am I missing something? should I run the maintenance task first?
and then the backup task?
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Jul 8, 2015
I am running a maintenance cleanup task as shown below but despite the log saying "success" it is not successful as nothing is cleaned up.
Maintenance Cleanup Task (VPS20604)
Maintenance Cleanup on Local server connection
Cleanup Database Backup files
Age: Older than 4 Weeks
Task start: 2015-07-08T16:14:24.
Task end: 2015-07-08T16:14:24.
Success
Command:EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N''C:SQLBkp'',N'''',N''2015-06-10T16:14:24''
GO
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Mar 25, 2008
I have a problem with deleting old bak files from a Cleanup Maintenance Task. I have backups in subdirectories and I read in SQL Server 2005 Books Online that:
In contrast to earlier versions of the Maintenance Cleanup task, the SQL Server 2005 version of the task does not automatically delete files in the subdirectories of the specified directory. This constraint reduces the surface area of any attack that could exploit the functionality of the Maintenance Cleanup task to delete files maliciously. To delete the first-level subfolders, you must explicitly elect to do this by checking the Include first-level subfolders option in the Maintenance Cleanup Task dialog box.
I cannot find such an option in my Maintenance Cleanup Task dialog box. I do not think I installed any service packs yet, could this be the problem?
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Mar 31, 2008
Hi. I'm very new to SQL Server and would greatly appreciate any advice with regard to my two questions below.
I've recently been given responsibility for a pair of clustered Windows 2003 servers running SQL Server 2005. Looking through SQL Server Management Studio, I found the following three maintenance plans:
- System Maintenance Plan (all system databases)
- Plan 1 (1 database)
- Plan 2 (4 databases).
All three maintenace plans had the following elements configured, in the following order:
- Check Database Integrity
- Backup Database (Full)
- Shrink Database
- Update statistics
- Clean Up History
with the exception that Plan 1 doesn't have a 'Shrink Database' task (because, I'm told, its data is pretty static), but none had a Maintenance Cleanup Task, so I added one to each plan specifying 14 days of old backups to be kept in all cases except Plan 1, where I limited it to 2 days, the database being over 7 GB in size. All links between tasks in all plans are AND constraints, value 'Completion'. All .BAKs are written to tape by Symantec Backup Exec as part of the daily backup.
Two questions from this:
1. Since .BAKs are written to separate folders for each database, do I need, for example, four Maintenance Cleanup Tasks for the Plans covering four databases - one for each folder/database? I can't see a way of specifying that a Maintenance Cleanup Task should apply to multiple databases or search subfolders based on database name, so I assume I need four consecutive Maintenance Cleanup Tasks within a single plan? Is this the way to do it?
2.The data displayed when I right-click a maintenance plan and choose View History shows:
date and time run
plan name
task name
duration
log type
log source
Since I added a Maintenance Cleanup Task to each plan, the only task shown in the Task Name column is Cleanup History (set to 'Older than 7 days'), and the duration is 00:00:00, where previously all tasks were shown and the overall duration was over a minute.
However, the .BAK files are being created (size looks OK), the application log contains entries suggesting the backups and other tasks completed successfully, and if I expand the SQL Server Logs node and view the current file I can see entries which give the same 'success' messages (presumably this log is the source of the 'success' messages in the application log?).
Why does there appear to be an anomaly between the 'View History' display and the SQL Server Log and application log? Should I be worried, or is what I can see in the SQL Server Logs and application log sufficient grounds for a good night's sleep?
Thanks,
Ed
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Mar 31, 2008
Hi. I'm very new to SQL Server and would greatly appreciate any advice with regard to my two questions below.
I've recently been given responsibility for a pair of clustered Windows 2003 servers running SQL Server 2005. Looking through SQL Server Management Studio, I found the following three maintenance plans:
- System Maintenance Plan (all system databases)
- Plan 1 (1 database)
- Plan 2 (4 databases).
All three maintenace plans had the following elements configured, in the following order:
- Check Database Integrity
- Backup Database (Full)
- Shrink Database
- Update statistics
- Clean Up History
with the exception that Plan 1 doesn't have a 'Shrink Database' task (because, I'm told, its data is pretty static), but none had a Maintenance Cleanup Task, so I added one to each plan specifying 14 days of old backups to be kept in all cases except Plan 1, where I limited it to 2 days, the database being over 7 GB in size. All links between tasks in all plans are AND constraints, value 'Completion'. All .BAKs are written to tape by Symantec Backup Exec as part of the daily backup.
Two questions from this:
1. Since .BAKs are written to separate folders for each database, do I need, for example, four Maintenance Cleanup Tasks for the Plans covering four databases - one for each folder/database? I can't see a way of specifying that a Maintenance Cleanup Task should apply to multiple databases or search subfolders based on database name, so I assume I need four consecutive Maintenance Cleanup Tasks within a single plan? Is this the way to do it?
2.The data displayed when I right-click a maintenance plan and choose View History shows:
date and time run
plan name
task name
duration
log type
log source
Since I added a Maintenance Cleanup Task to each plan, the only task shown in the Task Name column is Cleanup History (set to 'Older than 7 days'), and the duration is 00:00:00, where previously all tasks were shown and the overall duration was over a minute.
However, the .BAK files are being created (size looks OK), the application log contains entries suggesting the backups and other tasks completed successfully, and if I expand the SQL Server Logs node and view the current file I can see entries which give the same 'success' messages (presumably this log is the source of the 'success' messages in the application log?).
Why does there appear to be an anomaly between the 'View History' display and the SQL Server Log and application log? Should I be worried, or is what I can see in the SQL Server Logs and application log sufficient grounds for a good night's sleep?
Thanks,
Ed
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Mar 27, 2007
Has anyone been able to successfully delete old backup files(*.bak) and tran logs (*.trn) TOGETHER using maintenance plan cleanup task in SQL 2005 SP2.
this is transact sql running in the back ground.
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'F:MSSQL.2MSSQLBackupibmdir',N'"bak" & "trn"',N'2007-03-26T22:21:14',1
This DOESNT WORK.
It works if I just try to delete only one of the things ie trn or bak files.
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'F:MSSQL.2MSSQLBackupibmdir',N'bak',N'2007-03-26T22:21:14',1
But is there a way to delete both bak and trn files using one task ?
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Jan 16, 2008
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
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Oct 9, 2007
Hi There
I have just done my first clean install of SQL 2005. I have previously upgraded several boxes from SQL 2000 without incident.
The clean install seemed to go fine but the Maintenance Tasks didn't install? I have looked on the web but have been unable to unearth any information. Has anyone encountered this before and if so I how do I add Maintenance Tasks to the Management folder?
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Mar 31, 2008
in Management Studio, when i click on MODIFY a maintenance plan, the first thing I get is an alert "the diagram layout information was rebuilt" - "cannot set the default layout style of the diagram to 'microsoft.datawarehouse.layout.graphlayout', which i simply ignore, according the the limited info i was able to dig up on this alert.
my question is related to the color of the connectors between tasks. when i use the wizard to create a maintenance plan the connectors are blue, but when i add a task to an existing plan (by dragging an dropping from the available tasks into the diagram) and then choose "add precendence constraint" from the last task to the newly added task, the connector is green. WHY is that?
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TITLE: Expression Builder
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Reading the variable "User::varDataset" failed with error code 0xC00470D0.
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2. if we link the last task to all the tasks with link type 'completed' will the last task complete after all tasks are completed or when any one of them is completed (i have big doubt here)
the business requirement behind this is to bring data from multiple servers into shadow copies locally and then process them together. its ok if some server data transfer fails, but its not ok to start processing centrally while data transfer is going on. further, we want to run data transfer from multiple servers in paralleled to save time.
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Hi,
Just wanted to know how can I delete those old server/error/agent log?
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Oldest Day till I want to Purge[30 days of Old Data] : 03-17-2015
Running Cleanuphistory Procedure On Server:
NO of records are qualifying for deletion:0
Deleted Sysmail MAil Items, Old history: 1
Deleted Sysmail Log Old history: 1
0 history entries purged. <<<<<<< ----------------------- [HOW IT IS COMING ?? ??]
Deleted SQL JOB Old HISTORY: 1
*** END OF PROCEDURE. ***
[Code] .....
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Aug 17, 2007
Hello,
I have a question that I hope someone can clear up for me. I have come across a number of different suggestions on DB maintenance, for example reindexing with the following script:
USE DatabaseName --Enter the name of the database you want to reindex
DECLARE @TableName varchar(255)
DECLARE TableCursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_type = 'base table'
OPEN TableCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableName
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
DBCC DBREINDEX(@TableName,' ',90)
FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableName
END
CLOSE TableCursor
DEALLOCATE TableCursor
My question is, doesn't the maintenance plan have this functionality inherent in it when you create the maintenance jobs to reindex? Is there a benefit to scripting things out vs just using the maintenance plan wizard for this sort of thing and any of the items it covers? I came from an Oracle background where this was a no-brainer but I am a bit confused on the choices with SQL Server.
Thanks.
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Hi,
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I can get a list of the sql server 2005 machines (Which are on the network) from a sql server table.
There is a another table which holds the list of the checks that need to be carried out against each sql server 2005 machine called tblCheckList.
The list of tasks in the table is briefly as follows:
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5) get the servicepack version
6) get the authentication
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...
...
...
The list goes on
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I currently can achieve the above using Java and sql server and running the program as a scheduled task... (only reason for change would be that i wouldnt require java, JDBC etc to run the software it would be easy manage, migrate etc)
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Code: 0x00000003 Source: Set Perspective Connection Description: Precompiled script failed to load. The computer that is running the Script Task does not have a compiler capable of recompiling the script. To recompile the script, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article, KB931846 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=81885).
I have reviewed this article and everything points to SP2 as being the fix. Being that I am running SP2 there is something else going on. I was curious to see if anyone else has run into this issue with SP2.
Any input you have is greatly appreciated.
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Which sp code part is efficient?
1st code from sp_MSdistribution_cleanup. Used for Replication Cleanup job.
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2nd code part is an alternative idea!.
/************************************************** *****************/
delete MSsubscriber_status from MSsubscriber_status ss1 where
publisher_id = @publisher_id and
publisher_db = @publisher_db and
subscriber_id = @subscriber_id and
subscriber_db = @subscriber_db and
job_id < @max_cleanup_job and
job_id <> (select max(job_id) from
MSsubscriber_status ss2 (index = ucMSsubscriber_status) where
ss2.publisher_id = @publisher_id and
ss2.publisher_db = @publisher_db and
ss2.subscriber_id = @subscriber_id and
ss2.subscriber_db = @subscriber_db)
/************************************************** *******************/
select @maxCleanup_job = max(job_id) from
MSsubscriber_status (index = ucMSsubscriber_status) where
publisher_id = @publisher_id and
publisher_db = @publisher_db and
subscriber_id = @subscriber_id and
subscriber_db = @subscriber_db
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publisher_id = @publisher_id and
publisher_db = @publisher_db and
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Hi everyone,
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All ready to roll out to Server B I thought, so I then saved the .dtsx file to a shared network drive.
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Ques; can "both" files the db backup (.bak) file "and" the (.txt)report file in a maint plan object be cleaned up at same time?
The object is working ok but trying to setup and match backup text reports to the db, I have way more .bak files than text files.
Created from/after db maint plan (which is working ok) from/in the object Maintenance Cleanup Task and the object selections are
Delete files of the following type:
_backup files
_maintenance plan text reports
File location:
_delte specific file
File name: __
_search folder and delete files based on an extension
Folder:__
File extension:__
File age:
_Delete files based on the age of the file at task run time...
delete files oder than the following. . . .
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Apr 24, 2007
Hi all,
I created a maintenance plan with a cleanup task to delete bak files older than 4 days, but it keeps deleting everything but the current day files.
This is the generated T-SQL:
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'F:SQLDBBACKUP',N'BAK',N'2007-04-20T11:59:30',1
Someone can tell what's wrong with it?
I've noticed that wheter if you put the condition on files' age or not it generates exactly the same T-SQL statement, it says that the actual one could be different if you set conditions on the task, but if it is so why they work the saem way?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Giovanni
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