How To Change Backup Paths In Backup jobs in SQL Server?
Greetings,
Wanted to know if there was a script you have that will change current backup path in SQL Server backup jobs to a new path without manually changing each backup job? We have over 50 backup jobs on 50 servers and wanted to see if there was some sort of undocumented method to do this without manually doing it. For example current backup path could be \\bakserver1\fullbkups\emp
Wanted to know if there was a script you have that will change current backup path in SQL Server backup jobs to a new path without manually changing each backup job? We have over 50 backup jobs on 50 servers and wanted to see if there was some sort of undocumented method to do this without manually doing it. For example current backup path could be \\bakserver1\fullbkups\emp
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The default backup path is stored in the registry so do take care!
The key for the default 2005 instance is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
My recommendation is to change the backup jobs, or alternatively use a database to keep your backup procedures and so on, and store a default backup path in that database. I would be reluctant to change the registry on an otherwise working production machine.
HTH
David