Persistence pays off! lol I belive I have figured it out. Seems to work in my test environment. Darn Quote Marks get me every time lol
So for those curious, I had to alter the string in @FileDelete as such:
SET @FileDelete = 'xp_cmdshell' + '''' + ('forfiles /p F:\BACKUP\DATA\') + @DBName + '\ /m *.bak /c "cmd /c del @file " /d -8'''
the entire script looks like this:
USE master
DECLARE @DBName VARCHAR(100)
-- CURSOR to lookup DBNames in master DB excluding system DBs in results set
DECLARE DBBackup_Cursor CURSOR LOCAL STATIC FOR
-- Get DBNames for CURSOR
SELECT CATALOG_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA
WHERE CATALOG_NAME NOT IN ('master', 'tempdb', 'model', 'msdb', 'WSS_AdminContent', 'WSS_Search_SIUALPH-SPT01', 'WSS_Search_SIUALPH-SPT1')
ORDER BY CATALOG_NAME
-- Start CURSOR
OPEN DBBackup_Cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM DBBackup_Cursor INTO @DBName
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
FETCH NEXT FROM DBBackup_Cursor INTO @DBName
-- Incremntal Backup Process
DECLARE @date VARCHAR (14),
@DBName_Path VARCHAR (255),
@File VARCHAR (260),
@cmd VARCHAR (255),
@database VARCHAR(100),
@FileDelete VARCHAR(100)
set @date = CONVERT (VARCHAR(12) , GETDATE(), 112) + SUBSTRING (CONVERT (VARCHAR(12) , GETDATE(), 114),1,2) + SUBSTRING (CONVERT (VARCHAR(12) , GETDATE(), 114),4,2) + SUBSTRING(CONVERT (VARCHAR(12) , GETDATE(), 114),7,2)
set @DBName_Path = 'F:\BACKUP\DATA\' + @DBName + '\' + @DBName + '_Incremental_' + @date + '.BAK'
set @database = @DBName
-- This will display path and filename during a test
-- select @DBName_Path, @database
-- For testing path, comment out the below line prior to executing script
BACKUP LOG @database TO DISK = @DBName_Path
-- To test comment out the below line prior to executing script
SET @FileDelete = 'xp_cmdshell' + '''' + ('forfiles /p F:\BACKUP\DATA\') + @DBName + '\ /m *.bak /c "cmd /c del @file " /d -8'''
EXECUTE (@FileDelete)
FETCH NEXT FROM DBBackup_Cursor INTO @DBName
-- Uncomment to test xp_cmdshell command is formated fcorrectly
-- SET @FileDelete = SET @FileDelete = 'xp_cmdshell' + '''' + ('forfiles /p F:\BACKUP\DATA\') + @DBName + '\ /m *.bak /c "cmd /c del @file " /d -8'''
-- SELECT @FileDelete
-- CURSOR END
END
CLOSE DBBackup_Cursor
DEALLOCATE DBBackup_Cursor
Thanks to all who took a look at this one!
Frederick (Fred) J. Stemp, Jr.
Database Administrator / Database Developer
Dealer Funding, LLC
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