It's not an answer to your question but something to consider. A while back we switched our Backup from the the Database maintenance plan to the script by Nigel Rivett from http://www.nigelrivett.net/BackupAllDatabases.html because it allows better control over backup.

>I chose to backup all databases for the server daily using a subdirectory for each database. The Maintenance Cleanup task on the other hand does not have an option to delete backup files older than a certain time in the database subdirectories.
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>Other than naming each subdirectory or placing all files in the same directory is there a way to make the delete process go into the subdirectories? I tried using an asterisk for directory name but T-SQL doesn't like it.
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