maintenance plan and sub-directory

Hello there,
We have a maintenance plan to backup five user databases, we select "create
a sub-directory" and backup file to "d:\sql\backup", one of database backup
files did go to subdirectory of "d:\sql\backup", system put backup files in
"d:\sql\backup",
Anybody has idea? I appreciate your reply
Thanks very much
LionelHi
It's not clear if these are different database in the same job or different
locations for the same database!!
I would expect the location to be consistent for each database within a
given job, therefore all full backups are either in one directory or each
sub-directory and the transaction log backups are either in one directory or
one sub-directory for each database.
You may also want to check the dates and times one the files.
John
"lionel" wrote:

> Hello there,
> We have a maintenance plan to backup five user databases, we select "creat
e
> a sub-directory" and backup file to "d:\sql\backup", one of database backu
p
> files did go to subdirectory of "d:\sql\backup", system put backup files i
n
> "d:\sql\backup",
> Anybody has idea? I appreciate your reply
> Thanks very much
> Lionel
>|||Does the folder exist for that specific db? I have seen issues where when
the MP can not get access to the specified folder it uses the next level up
instead. Another reason why I hate MP's.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"lionel" <lionel@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello there,
> We have a maintenance plan to backup five user databases, we select
> "create
> a sub-directory" and backup file to "d:\sql\backup", one of database
> backup
> files did go to subdirectory of "d:\sql\backup", system put backup files
> in
> "d:\sql\backup",
> Anybody has idea? I appreciate your reply
> Thanks very much
> Lionel
>