daily back up job

  • Hi Friends,

    I need to take a backup of database daily , my requirement is to retain one week backup but the backup is overwriting daily im noy able to backup of previous days, can anyone please suggest on this

  • My suggestion is to use Maintenance Plan. It creates different backup files with different name. It does not overwrite.

    You can add a step to delete older backup files, if you want.

    I guess, currently you are taking backup with hardcoded filename and WITH INIT option.

  • thanks a lot , it worked

  • please can anyone suggest to modify the existing maintenance plan

  • Welcome. Happy to know that it worked.

  • can you please suggest how to modify the existing maintenance plan?

  • shilpa.shankar87 (6/22/2011)


    can you please suggest how to modify the existing maintenance plan?

    Right click and select Modify.

  • i did it but not able to modify the path of the text file..

  • shilpa.shankar87 (6/22/2011)


    i did it but not able to modify the path of the text file..

    Text file? Are you talking about Reporting and Logging...

    Backup file extensions are .BAK or .TRN

    What error message do you get?

  • i mean to say, to modify the path for taking backup with the existing maintenance plan

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