Why is the SQL job failing on weekends while it successfully runs in weekdays?

Question

I wrote a job to create a backup. But this seems to work fine in weekdays. After weekends I can't find any backups. History viewer shows only 1 day of history and therefore I can't see what happened to the job in weekends. How can I increase the amount
of history information from Job activity monitor? And is there a way to trace what happened in weekends? Please advice.
mayooran99

Answer 1

Have you checked the job current schedule ? is this scheduled for daily ? have you checked the backup location ? how many day backups are exist? is there any recent backups ?
backup details :
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1601/script-to-retrieve-sql-server-database-backup-history-and-no-backups/
Change sql agent jobs history retenions :
--Set new Limit size of job history
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_set_sqlagent_properties @jobhistory_max_rows=-1,@jobhistory_max_rows_per_job=-1
--delete jobhistory older than 7 days and schedule following as a job or use gui
DECLARE @oldest_date DATETIME
SET @oldest_date = DATEADD(DAY,-7,GETDATE())
PRINT @oldest_date
EXEC msdb..sp_purge_jobhistory NULL,NULL,@oldest_date
OR
Rightclick on SQL Server Agent, properties-> History, You can increase the history log size(in rows) and max Job history rows per job .
OR
USE[msdb]
GO
EXEC[dbo].[sp_set_sqlagent_properties]
@jobhistory_max_rows=10000,
@jobhistory_max_rows_per_job=1000
GOReference :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189683.aspxhttp://sqlserverplanet.com/dba/increase-job-history
Raju Rasagounder Sr MSSQL DBA