Location of Maintenance Plan's Back Up Database Tasks information (SQL Server 2005)

Question

I would like to know where in the database or on the file system the information about Back Up Database Task in the Maintenance Plans Tasks.

I can find the Job in msdb.dbo.sysjobs I can find the Subplan in msdb.dbo.sysmaintplan_subplans

But I need to find where and how the Task is being stored.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

RThomas · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-11 17:03:15Z

up vote 5 down vote accepted

In SQL 2000 they were in the msdb database.

In SQL 2005 maintenance plans are modified SSIS (or DTS) packages and are stored in the dbo.sysdtspackages90 table. (from: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic501078-5-1.aspx )

In SQL 2008 they are in the sysssispackages table

edited May 11 '11 at 17:03

answered May 11 '11 at 16:38

RThomas
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	The sysdbmaintplan_... tables in msdb do not have any data in them. The sysdbmaintplans table has 1 record with a created date of 2005-10-14 (Long before this SQL server was installed.) – DBADarron May 11 '11 at 16:50
	I have edited my answer with better information. – RThomas May 11 '11 at 17:04

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