SQL Server Maintenance Plan


This is very useful when we talk about regular SQL backup and maintenance. Here are the steps to follow it makes a scheduler and take backup as per your scheduled time and date.
Step 1: Go to SQL Server 2008 go to the management, right click on Maintenance Plan, click on Maintenance Plan Wizard
Step 2: Click next enter your plan name and description you will see in screen
Step 3: Click next and select your maintenance task (Back up database full)
Step 4: Click next to see the BackupDatabase (full)
Step 5: Click next to select the database name and back path to be stored as given screen. Click O.K and next to go further
Step 6: Click next, next to until finish to complete the wizard
Step 7: After click on finish you see the successful screen. Click on your maintenance plan you see the below screen
Step 8: click on schedule to schedule your maintenance plan to execute on day and time and click on OK.
Step 9: If you want to test whether my maintenance plan is working or not, you just right click on your maintenance plan and execute it.
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