Getting last backup date for Ola Hallegren SQL Maintenance Solution


As already mentioned in this post, Ola ‘s solution to backup your SQL Server databases is recognized as a easy-to-deploy, no stress, solution. You can easily build on top of it.

Without installing any SQL cmdlet nor looking in the table the scripts produce, here is a solution to get  the latest backups for each database solely based on the files’ timestamps.

The usage is simple:

More elaborated use is to create a report to group the databases by their last backup day

Get-OlaLatestBackups

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