SQL 2000 Maintenance Plan failure


i have 3 maintenance plans inplace

one backup our 3 production databases, master, model, msdb, 1 backup log files of our production databases , 1 optimize our production databases.  backup plans set delete old backup 3 or more days old

when plans first put place worked correctly.  lately (month or 2), backup plans have not been working correctly.

when first noticed problem,  1.  saw the drive i'm putting backups on out of space , 2 delete part of backup not deleting backups more 3 days old.  when deleted old backups, plans worked normal until hd became full again.

i have 2 questions.

1.  when "delete" part of plan work before or after "backup" part.

2.  if "delete" after "backup" operation, if hd filled how plan react.

david -

1.  can set plan steps in order, default delete comes @ end. suggest leave remove steps after backups, safety.

2.  if delete step in-line after backup, not fire if backup fails due lack of space. may you're facing here. set delete happen regardless, don't recommend it, because might situation have no backup files @ on drive.

what in tight drive-space situation add step maintenance plan runs operating system batch job zip (compress) backup files after last step. saves me drive space, since backups full of lot of compressable bits.

buck woody



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