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
I am new to SQL backups but what I have done is created a script sp_BackupProcessor that is used to determine which backup type is run (Full,Differential,Transaction). I am backing up to the local drive and then our tape backup system backs up the files on our local system to tape. I only want to keep 3 days worth of backups on our local machine since the same information is stored on tape. What is the best way to handle this? Any help or ideas would be appreciated. I have included my script for reference.
Thanks,
Tim
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_BackupProcessor
@Help BIT = 0,
@Database VARCHAR(30) = NULL,
@BackupName VARCHAR(50) = NULL,
@BackupType VARCHAR(4) = NULL,
@Filename VARCHAR(255) = NULL,
@Description VARCHAR(255) = NULL
AS
Parameters:
@Database = ''master''
-- Default = ''master''
-- Specifies the database to backup.
@BackupName = ''masterLOG''
-- Default = ''masterLOG''
-- Specifies a name for the backup.
@BackupType = [''FULL'' | ''DIFF'' | ''LOG''],
-- Default = ''LOG''
-- ''FULL'' = Full database backup
-- ''DIFF'' = Differential database backup
-- ''LOG'' = Transaction Log Backup
@Filename = ''C:empmasterLOG.TRN''
-- Defualt = ''C:empmasterLOG.TRN''
-- Specifies the file to use for the backup.
-- Provide full path and filename.
@Description = ''255 cahr max''
-- Default = ''
-- Specifies a description to attach to the bakup.
Usage:
sp_BackupProcessor
@Database = ''Database'',
@BackupName = ''BackupName'',
@BackupType = [''FULL'' | ''DIFF'' | ''LOG''],
@Filename = ''FullPathLocalFile'',
@Description = ''Backup Description (255 max)''
'
RETURN 1
END
DECLARE @BackupStmt VARCHAR(500)
SELECT @BackupStmt =
CASE @BackupType
WHEN 'FULL' THEN
'BACKUP DATABASE ' + @Database + ' ' +
'TO DISK = ''' + @Filename + ''' ' +
'WITH RETAINDAYS = 2,' +
'INIT' + ', ' +
'NAME = ''' + @BackupName + ''', ' +
'NOSKIP' + ', ' +
'DESCRIPTION = ''' + @Description + ''', ' +
'NOFORMAT'
WHEN 'DIFF' THEN
'BACKUP DATABASE ' + @Database + ' ' +
'TO DISK = ''' + @Filename + ''' ' +
'WITH DIFFERENTIAL' + ', ' +
'NAME = ''' + @BackupName + ''', ' +
'NOSKIP' + ', ' +
'DESCRIPTION = ''' + @Description + ''', ' +
'NOFORMAT'
WHEN 'LOG' THEN
'BACKUP LOG ' + @Database + ' ' +
'TO DISK = ''' + @Filename + ''' ' +
'WITH NOINIT' + ', ' +
'NAME = ''' + @BackupName + ''', ' +
'NOSKIP' + ', ' +
'DESCRIPTION = ''' + @Description + ''', ' +
'NOFORMAT'
END
EXECUTE(@BackupStmt)
GO
I proposed on a new server that we separate Data Files, Log Files, tempDB, Backups, etc. onto separate LUNS on a SAN with High Speed Solid State Drives.I was told that with the new technology with solid state SAN's that it would decrease performance and that it did not work the same way as it did when you had RAID 5's etc.I thought that if things were cared out correctly by a SAN Administrator they would know how to configure for optimal performance.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm the dba for a large company and have setup many maintenance plans for our sql servers. One of the options I have set is to delete old backups of databases and transaction logs after 2 days. For some reason, the old database backups are being deleted, but the old transaction logs backups are not. I have them being put in the same directory. Anybody have any ideas why this is happening and what if any fix is available?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHello Group,
I have a SQL Server 2000 database that has never been backed up. The SQL Server database can't be logged into due to an SSL Security Error, thus I can't get to the backup utilities within Enterprise Manager.
What data files do I need to backup manually and what steps do I have to take to backup these files to a tape and rebuild the server?
Thanks
Kevin Kraus
http://forums.databasejournal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29895
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe have our Maintenance routines set up to delete files older that one week, but it is not working...
...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
My scenario -
-Dev server lost all its raid drives (which included user data/log files and ALL backups)
-Raid drives were removed from server, so we could try and recover the data (not sure why they had to remove them)
-Recreating the user db's isn't an issue, but I REALLY need to retrieve the jobs from the MSDB (developer was working on dts package for the last 2 months, but didn't check it in to VSS)
-Since the System DB's (model, master, msdb) were installed on the C drive, I was able to recover their mdf/ldf files.
So we build an new server and recreated the user db's.
How do I go about getting the jobs data from the msdb database?
I've tried the following -
Started SQL server with the -T3608 and was able to detach the MSDB database, but when I go to reattach using the mdf/ldf files from the other server I get the following error message.
Error 5172: The header for the file 'C:mssqldatamsdbdata.mdf' is not a valid database file header. The PageAudit property is incorrect
I've been doing some research and found a lot of great articles on how to RESTORE (from backup - dont have) or Rebuild (wipes out the data I'm looking for) the MSDB, but not how to replace it with only the ldf/mdf files....
Any idea's would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
PS - All backups are now being copied to another server (lesson learned)
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!!!!
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
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?
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
Hey guys,
I'm wondering how most people manage very very large backups. What is the best approach to breaking up the backup files if you're restricted to a drive size (450gig in my case). I unix, you can pipe the backup to gzip and split, I'm not sure how the same thing could be accomplished in windows.
Thanks,
-Kilka
Michael writes "We are running SQL and Veritas to backup the databases. Supposedly the SQL agent in Veritas, after a full backup, truncates the log files but for some reason this isn't happening... any ideas?"
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe have a SQL 2K5 10GB database that, as part of the recovery plan, gets a differential backup every six hours. Log file backups occur every hour, and a full backup is done every 24 hours. Over the weekend, the differential backup produced a 55GB backup file which caused us a lot of issues besides disk space usage (log backups couldnt finish, mirroring broke, etc.). This is also the max growth size that the log file is set to. There are no errors in the ERRORLOG, or in the job history. It's as if the backup was successful, which I assume it was, but the file was sparse.
I should mention that our full backup is typically 10GB, log file backups are typically 100 to 500MB, and the diff backup is generally 1GB to 3GB.
Has anyone experienced this issue before?
What causes it?
How do we resolve it?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Greg
where in sql server 2005 ( and 2000 for that matter) do i find the path to the location where backups are placed (.bak files)? is there sql i can use to find this out
View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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.
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 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
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am utlizing a scripting object in my ssis to combine two text files into one final file, and then I want to delete the original files. To do this I am utilizing the FileSystemInfo namespace and associating the file names, then utilizing the DELETE functionality.
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:
' 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 System.IO
Imports System.IO.File
Imports System.IO.FileSystemInfo
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()
Dim strCurrentMonth As String
Dim strCurrentYear As String
Dim strWriteFileName As String
Dim strReadHeaderFileName As String
Dim strReadBodyFileName As String
'Utilizing a case statement, determine the monthname & year and set the appropriate variables
Select Case Month(Now())
Case 1
strCurrentMonth = "January"
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
'Set variables with file names (reader files and write file) for ease in readability and to
'set final (write file) with appropriate nameing convention utilized by Matria HealthCare.
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
'write all base records
sw.WriteLine(sr2.ReadLine)
Loop
'close the read stream for the body records
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 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
Until yesterday I had a server running SQL Server 2008 R2 - with all the SQL Server DB files on an attached disk array.
The server died - so I attached the disk array to a new server - and all the DB data files are visible there.
I installed SQL Server 2014 on the new server and am trying to work out how to point it at the existing database files.
I also have backups of the DB's - but they will take ages to copy over and restore - so it would be much easier to just use the db files. Should I restore the master db first (easy as its small)?
Hi,
I am cleaning database backup history as "Delete history if 4 months old" for backup file, and "Delete history if 1 week old" for Log file back.
lets say, I have disaster after 3 months, and I recover database with data and log backup files. Will I be able to recover with 3 month old backup file with just 1 week Log file backup. As I am keeing my Log backups only for 1 week.
Thanks,
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
The space allocated to the Log in question is 180 GB. During this time period I was running TLog backups every 5 minutes, yet the log continued to chew through to 80 GB used, even after the process was complete and a final TLog backup had been taken. It continued to stay very large until the Full backup was complete -- or something else that I'm unaware of completed. Like every other DBA I typically take a TLog backup to shrink the log, but what appeared to be the case here was the Full completed and it released the used log space. All said, will Transaction Log backups not free up the log during Full backups?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi
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
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[dbo.ServiceLog] Script Date: 07/18/2014 14:30:59 ******/
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:'.
In the For Loop, How to Iterate from Older flat files to Newer flat files based on File's Timestamp. If there are some older files in that folder, it should be processed first and then continue with the newer one.
Any Suggestions?
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.
I know i have to use a script task to do this and i did some research and found examples for each of the above 2 steps and not both combined, so that's why I need some help here to get the logic incorporated right.
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
ftp.ReceiveFiles(files, "C: emp", True, True)
' 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
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?