Backups Not Deleting

We're running SQL Server 2000 service pack 4. I've created a Maintenance
Plan that backs up all user databases, each to its own subfolder, every
night. The plan is supposed to delete old copies as well which it is not
doing. If I change the plan to backup only 1 database it works (old copies
deleted). When I switch it to all user databases, no more deletes. And the
sqlmaint log file does not even show that any deletes were attempted. Note
that we do have some databases offline, so those are skipped, of course, and
the job does fail.
Please help! What's the secret to get the older files to delete?
Here's the Step on the SQL Agent job:
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlmaint N'-PlanID
21EA0A98-9812-4AEA-8BC0-08AEAEAB24EC -Rpt "c:\temp\DB Maintenance
Plan14.txt" -DelTxtRpt 1WEEKS -WriteHistory -VrfyBackup -BkUpMedia
DISK -BkUpDB "D:\Backup" -DelBkUps 1DAYS -CrBkSubDir -BkExt "BAK"'
Thanks,
Krip
>I believe that deletion is done *at the end* of the job, so if anything
>fails, it bails out and no deletion is performed. You can try by first
>including only database so the whole job succeeds.
Tibor,
Thanks for the tip! I detached all our offline databases, and job finishes
without error, and deletes the old backups. Beautiful.
-Krip
|||I have also seen this behavior when the plan includes both Full and Simple
Recovery model databases.
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"Krip" <amk@.kynetix.com> wrote in message
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> Tibor,
> Thanks for the tip! I detached all our offline databases, and job
> finishes without error, and deletes the old backups. Beautiful.
> -Krip
>