Transaction Log Backup Cleaning If you back up your transaction log every hour through a maintenance plan, why does your log file continue to grow? I would think the system would delete or shrink the log after the backup. Is this something I want to do?
Because the size of it is not big enough to handle the size of the transactions every hour.


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Something is preventing the log from getting cleared after the log backup completes. Check the log_reuse_wait_desc column in master.sys.databases to see why it isn't clearing out.


Consider backing up the transaction logs more frequently than hourly. I recommend every 1-5 minutes.