complete bkup & log size

Hi ,
does a complete backup automatically reduce a log file size by removing
the inactive entries and those already written to the database ?
i have created a completed database backup on a weeklt basis but it still
seem that the log file is quite huge around 11 GB ?
could anyone kindly advise how i can approach this backup issue ?
tks & rdgs
Backups do not reduce the size of any files. You must issue regular log
backups in addition to FULL backups if your database recover model is set to
FULL. or Bulk Logged. If you don't wish to do log backups you should change
it to simple mode. To shrink the file once you have fixed the process you
can use DBCC SHRINKFILE.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"maxzsim" <maxzsim@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi ,
> does a complete backup automatically reduce a log file size by removing
> the inactive entries and those already written to the database ?
> i have created a completed database backup on a weeklt basis but it still
> seem that the log file is quite huge around 11 GB ?
> could anyone kindly advise how i can approach this backup issue ?
> tks & rdgs