Backup devices and expired backups

Hello, I am having a problem with backup devices, and
hope someone knows a solution.
I have created a backup device on my 100GB D: drive
called Mustang_Backup. The file is located at
D:\MSSQL\BACKUP\Mustang_Backup.BAK.
My maintenance plan is a full backup on Sunday and a
differential on all other days. These are working
correctly.
My server also has a 14 day retention setting.
My problem is that the backup device is not removing the
expired backups. I now have a 75GB backup file for a 3GB
database. I am concerned that the backups are going to
fill the entire drive and then start to fail.
Does anyone know of a way to delete or remove the expired
backups in a device?
Thanks for your help,
SteveYou can't keep the different backups in one device if you want to remove
some of them after a certain time. It's all or nothing in a single device.
If your using the MP then have it create different files for each backup and
it should work as expected.
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Andrew J. Kelly
SQL Server MVP
"steve" <sgent001@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, I am having a problem with backup devices, and
> hope someone knows a solution.
> I have created a backup device on my 100GB D: drive
> called Mustang_Backup. The file is located at
> D:\MSSQL\BACKUP\Mustang_Backup.BAK.
> My maintenance plan is a full backup on Sunday and a
> differential on all other days. These are working
> correctly.
> My server also has a 14 day retention setting.
> My problem is that the backup device is not removing the
> expired backups. I now have a 75GB backup file for a 3GB
> database. I am concerned that the backups are going to
> fill the entire drive and then start to fail.
> Does anyone know of a way to delete or remove the expired
> backups in a device?
> Thanks for your help,
> Stevesql