Vbscript to delete sql backup files

Thanks very much! Alexey Alexey 1, 3 3 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Do you get an error? Maybe you need to have enough permissions. Requires membership in the diskadmin fixed server role. This is what I needed. Create a backup-device, with a physical name that points to the backup-file: exec master..

Physical filenames can be found in the table 'msdb.. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses.

Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked 0. Related 0. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Accept all cookies Customize settings. The stored procedure also prints the command in the messages tab in SSMS and would look like this:.

Configuration option 'show advanced options' changed from 0 to 1. Related Articles. Backup to multiple files for faster and smaller SQL Server files.

Simple script to backup all SQL Server databases. Using passwords with SQL Server database backup files. Changing the default SQL Server backup folder. Why don't you want to use it? You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login to reply. March 28, at pm I'm using the below vbscript from a sqlagent job to delete old backup files older than 1 day. It's working file in SQL Server