Failed Maintenance Plan

Please advice.
I run a SQL2k SP4 on WIN2K SP4.
I have a maintenance plan to backup the databases at 01:30AM. This has alway
s been successfull.
Strangely it did the backup at 02:25PM with no entry in SQL Error Log and ca
using subsequent backups to fail as the files created had the 02:25 badge he
nce could not be deleted.
Please help as to what caused the maintenece plan to backup at 02:25 and wha
t to do to avoid it.
Thanks for your kind response.My guess is that it wasn't Main Plan that did the backup, someone else did i
t (or explicitly started the main
plan job, or scheduled the main plan job at that hour). If it was executed a
s a job, you can view the job
history under EM, Management, Jobs. In any event, each backup is written to
the eventlog and the errorlog
file.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
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> Please advice.
> I run a SQL2k SP4 on WIN2K SP4.
> I have a maintenance plan to backup the databases at 01:30AM. This has alw
ays been successfull.
> Strangely it did the backup at 02:25PM with no entry in SQL Error Log and causing
subsequent backups to fail
as the files created had the 02:25 badge hence could not be deleted.
> Please help as to what caused the maintenece plan to backup at 02:25 and w
hat to do to avoid it.
> Thanks for your kind response.
>