[thelist] MSSQL backups not being deleted by scheduled job

[Anthony Baratta]

Canfield, Joel wrote:
> I have two databases where the scheduled job isn't deleting old backups
> even though I've checked the happy little box.
> 
> Am I safe to manually delete backups other than the current one? I
> realize we need to keep enough backups/transaction logs to  rebuild if
> necessary, but we've got four months of data taking up 100GB of space.

Nuke'm. They are stand alone files not attached to any service.