Problem with MSSQL 2005 maintenence plan

Question

Hi,
I am facing a problem with MSSQL 2005 maintenance plan. I created a plan which takes full backup of all the db’s and in the same plan I added a clean up task which is suppose to clean all the files older that 1 day.
To gain compression I converted this plan to lite speed. Now the problem is Backups are running fine but the clean task is not cleaning old files. The job runs fine without fail.
Any body who has faced similar problem please let me know if have the solution ?
Thanks in advance.
Kishan

Answer 1

Hi in this case  my date format used in backup file getutcdate() format but
to delete files i am using this script
Declare @sql varchar(250),@retention tinyint
set @retention=0
set @sql='Exec master.dbo.xp_cmdshell ''Del E:\SQL2005\Backup\*' + convert(varchar(15),getdate()-@retention,120) + '*.bak'''
Exec (@sql)
i also tried with getutcdate()
but it gives the following error.
Could Not Find \\E:\SQL2005\Backup\*2008-04-03*.bak
why i donot understand.
can any one give heads up.