Do backups need to be manually deleted?

If I create a backup plan with weekly full, daily differential, and hourly
log backups to local disk, will the backup sets continue to grow over time
or do they get overwritten? IOW, after six months will I have THOUSANDS of
backup files that will need to be deleted manually?
New backups are created each time. You can configure the maintenance plan
to delete old backups.
Tom
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS
SQL Server MVP
Toronto, ON Canada
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tom.Moreau
"Bill Fuller" <someone@.nospam.com> wrote in message
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If I create a backup plan with weekly full, daily differential, and hourly
log backups to local disk, will the backup sets continue to grow over time
or do they get overwritten? IOW, after six months will I have THOUSANDS of
backup files that will need to be deleted manually?
|||Cool. Is there an option somewhere in the Maintence Plan Wizard for doing
this?
"Tom Moreau" <tom@.dont.spam.me.cips.ca> wrote in message
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> New backups are created each time. You can configure the maintenance plan
> to delete old backups.
> --
> Tom
> ----
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS
> SQL Server MVP
> Toronto, ON Canada
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tom.Moreau
>
> "Bill Fuller" <someone@.nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:e3tuWL6UIHA.2464@.TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> If I create a backup plan with weekly full, daily differential, and hourly
> log backups to local disk, will the backup sets continue to grow over time
> or do they get overwritten? IOW, after six months will I have THOUSANDS of
> backup files that will need to be deleted manually?
>
|||When you specify a backup directory, there is also a checkbox to Remove
files older than a certain period.
Tom
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS
SQL Server MVP
Toronto, ON Canada
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tom.Moreau
"Bill Fuller" <someone@.nospam.com> wrote in message
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Cool. Is there an option somewhere in the Maintence Plan Wizard for doing
this?
"Tom Moreau" <tom@.dont.spam.me.cips.ca> wrote in message
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> New backups are created each time. You can configure the maintenance plan
> to delete old backups.
> --
> Tom
> ----
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS
> SQL Server MVP
> Toronto, ON Canada
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tom.Moreau
>
> "Bill Fuller" <someone@.nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:e3tuWL6UIHA.2464@.TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> If I create a backup plan with weekly full, daily differential, and hourly
> log backups to local disk, will the backup sets continue to grow over time
> or do they get overwritten? IOW, after six months will I have THOUSANDS of
> backup files that will need to be deleted manually?
>
|||Bill,
And to add to Tom's comment, it sounds like you are running SQL Server 2000,
but if you are running SQL Server 2005 there is also a Maintenance Cleanup
Task that deletes old files.
RLF
"Bill Fuller" <someone@.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Cool. Is there an option somewhere in the Maintence Plan Wizard for doing
> this?
> "Tom Moreau" <tom@.dont.spam.me.cips.ca> wrote in message
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>
|||I am running SQL Server 2005 and think I found that task... it defaults to 4
weeks, which I kept.
"Russell Fields" <russellfields@.nomail.com> wrote in message
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> Bill,
> And to add to Tom's comment, it sounds like you are running SQL Server
> 2000, but if you are running SQL Server 2005 there is also a Maintenance
> Cleanup Task that deletes old files.
> RLF
> "Bill Fuller" <someone@.nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
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