SQL Server How to Set up Maintenance plan to shrink log So I have a log file which grows very large after I run an SSIS job daily, sometimes up to 1220MB. In my database options I have set my recovery model to "FULL".

When it is to FULL and I perfrom shrink -> log -> it doesnt reduce much
but If I set recovery model to simple it reduces it to 1 MB.

The problem is as I see it I need to leave it at full so my back ups have full version of the database.

Now I created a maintenance plan to shrink database, but im noticing it also almost doing no shrinking again because I guess recovery model is at full. How can I get a maintenance plan working which will actually reduce the log file ?
When you switch the recovery mode to shrink the log file you are invalidating prior backups because it breaks the log chain.  What you need to do it switch it to simple, shrink it down to what you want, then switch it back and set up regular log backups (I would recommend hourly) in addition to full backups.  When a log backup is performed the log is truncated (note, not shrunk.  it will remain the same size on disk) and then the database will be free to re-use the space at the beginning of the file instead of appending to the end of the log file and causing file growth.