SQL Server 2000 Maintenance Plans

RBRB Posts: 3
edited July 25, 2007 12:46PM in SQL Backup Previous Versions
Hi,

My organisation use SQL 2000 maintenance plans across the SQL Server estate, can I create/edit these to use SQL Backup compression functionality?

Thanks

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  • Hi,

    Could I please have a response on to this question, it's been 2 weeks now. I am evaluating SQL Backup against LiteSpeed and need an answer asap.
  • Hi RB,
    While SQL Backup doesn't offer explicit support for maintenance plans per-say, you can generate Transact-SQL code that can be inserted into the maintenance plans by hand.

    The following is an example Transact-SQL statement that would compress the generated backup file (and automatically name it, for example with a timestamp):

    execute master..sqlbackup '-SQL "BACKUP DATABASE [mydatabase] TO DISK = ''c:\backups\<auto>.sqb'' WITH COMPRESSION = 2"';

    Alternatively, you can use the Scheduling Wizard in the SQL Backup 5 user interface to generate SQL Server Agent jobs that can perform the backups - which will offer much the same functionality as maintenance plans will.

    If you need any more information or specifics, let us know.

    Hope that helps,
    Jason
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