Can I delete BAK and TRN files?

I have an implementation of SQL Server 2000 with a job to
backup a customer database. The backup works file, but
none of the old backup and transaction files are removed
after each backup, so it is consuming a lot of disk
space. I have BAK and TRN files dating back 3 months.
Before I deleted any of the old files, I wanted to make
sure I am okay to do so. Does anyone know of a problem
with manually most of these files, leaving only the most
recent week or two of backups?
Thanks,
Jason... and if the backups are created by a SQL Server maintenance plan, you can
modify it to have the files older than a specified period removed. It's on
the Complete Backup and Transaction Log Backup tabs respectively, Remove
files older than item.
"Linchi Shea" <linchi_shea@.NOSPAMml.com> wrote in message
news:0b4a01c3d932$260faea0$a001280a@.phx.gbl...
> As far as whether deleting the old backup files will do
> any damage to the backup setup (e.g. your maintanance
> plans) is concerned, there is no problem. But you do need
> to make sure that if you ever need them, you can get them
> back (e.g. from your tape backup facility).
> Linchi
> >--Original Message--
> >I have an implementation of SQL Server 2000 with a job to
> >backup a customer database. The backup works file, but
> >none of the old backup and transaction files are removed
> >after each backup, so it is consuming a lot of disk
> >space. I have BAK and TRN files dating back 3 months.
> >Before I deleted any of the old files, I wanted to make
> >sure I am okay to do so. Does anyone know of a problem
> >with manually most of these files, leaving only the most
> >recent week or two of backups?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jason
> >.
> >sql