[SIMS] MSSQL backups from SIMS filling drive space

[nLinked]

Anyone have these (attached)? No specific schedule. Some are recent. Taking lots of space. How are these managed, why are they there, are they safe to move or remove?

[Mcshammer_dj]

if you search this site you will find reference to @Matt40 's wonderful utility which will zip the backups for you and remove them after a set amount of time.

Tidybackups

they are created ever time SIMS is upgraded or the database is patched. In reality you should only need to keep one as I doubt that you will want to go back any earlier.

[edutech4schools]

depending on your version of SQL you can get SQL manager to delete older backups automatically while its doing a backup.

[3s-gtech]

I have robocopy set on a schedule to move them off the server onto a NAS, that way a huge number of backups can be kept (not that it's really necessary to keep many).

[vikpaw]

i try to keep as many as i can. never going to full restore, but useful to restore to a test server and view data sometimes, as a way of auditing. also to copy back odd reports, templates if they get corrupted.
you should be able to zip / rar those to a third of the size. Then keep them there or move off to regular backup store.
They are not managed, but it is safe to move / remove. Presumably you have some other backup system, working at least nightly...

[matt40k]

tidybackups | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net - TidyBackups can remove old backups, compress the uncompressed, you use a batch file to call tidybackups then robocopy off to another server\nas or whatever.

[nLinked]

Thanks all!