Because a compressed backup is smaller than an uncompressed backup of the same data, compressing a backup typically requires less device I/O and therefore usually increases backup speed significantly.

Using compression with SSMS is just as easy. Simply set the compression option on the Options page of the Back up Database dialog. You may be asking yourself: How effective is this compression? The ...

Data Compression is available at last in SQL Server 2008. Even Backup Compression is available. This will help us save space and time. So maybe my comment about comparing storage and the financial ...

SQL Server 2008 provides a feature, which, in my opinion, has been far overdue: backup compression. For too long, if you wanted the benefit of compressed backups, you had to look at a third-party tool ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Database backups and maintenance windows for very large database are very frustrating especially if we need to generate full database backups to initialize a database mirroring or ...

I still have a hard time getting jazzed about Katmai's backup compression. Again, it's probably because I've been using LiteSpeed for so long, and it's just not news anymore. Not to mention it still ...

OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the number of ...