Hi. Need your advise re constructing a backup maintenace plan. I currently have a simple plan with two tasks in sequence: 1) Backup Database-Full, 2) Maintenance Cleanup deletes files older than 1 day. (I backup tran logs with a separate maint plan.) The plan is failing because there is not enough capacity on the backup destination drive to hold two generations of .bak files -- last night's and this night's.
I need to understand how this task sequence flows:
- I presume the plan backs up all databases, then once that's completed, moves on to the cleanup task and deletes older .bak files.
- Or, does the plan backup one database, then delete that database's previous night .bak file, then move on to the next database?
I need the latter. How can I accomplish that iterative flow?
Thanks.