Re: How to do a backup with sqlmaint in a different directory

From: Carlos Eduardo Rojas (carloser_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 03/18/04


Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:05:39 -0500

Go to database maintenance plans in enterprise manager and edit your plan
there. There's an option to specify the directory where you want your
backups stored. If you're storing backup files on a different server, use a
UNC path, for example \\remoteserver\sharename

-- 
Carlos E. Rojas
SQL Server MVP
Co-Author SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example
"Alfonso Gómez" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:61C9EEB0-9639-48A2-B0E4-6C2AAC7A9330@microsoft.com...
> Somobody know how to say to sqlmaint in which directory do the backup to
avoid use the default directory?


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