http://msmvps.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=app:weblogs&tag=Backup,maintenance+plan,directory&orTags=0&o=DateDescendingSearch results for 'app:weblogs' matching tags 'Backup', 'maintenance plan', and 'directory'en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)/http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/09/07/sql-server-2005-maintenance-plan-not-deleting-old-backups.aspxFri, 07 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1175280AnonymousIf you take into account of most Frequently Asked Questions in any SQL community forums, you will get to see problems against database maintenance plans by the users. Personally I don&#39;t like them to use (by default) and professionally always depend (suggest) upon my own scripts to manage the backup &amp; database re-org processes. So coming to the common problem faced by the users is, say X has created a Maintenance Plan to do a nightly full backup and set the backup set to expire after 2 days. Weeks...(<a href="http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/09/07/sql-server-2005-maintenance-plan-not-deleting-old-backups.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1927" width="1" height="1" alt="" />