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Cleaning Up SQL Server Backup History

Stuart Moore has a public service announcement for us:

From looking around at some of the Issues that get logged for dbatools, it looks like people never clear out their SQL backup history from msdb. This causes slow queries and potentially misleading backup trees to be returned.

In my (not so humble) opinion you really shouldn’t let your backup history fill up with, let’s be honest, useless junk. In this post I’ll go through why I think you should be keeping way less in there than people think you should

Read on for Stuart’s thoughts on the topic.