Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 10:38:30 CDT 2009
Compression backups? one thing to remember is that if you run a backup to a backup device you can't have an uncompressed backup with a compressed backup. as far as cost it might be cheaper to invest in redgate's backup software wich is fast and robust we use it here to backup our 2TB databases. for 295 you really can't beat the price on other solutions... its definitely cheaper than going 2008 enterprise. more info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb964719.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186865.aspx alternitavely you may wish to use a free compression product such as: http://www.idera.com/Products/Free-Tools/SQL-safe-Freeware-Edition/ -Francisco http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:05 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > Does anyone have experience with using compression in 2008? I understand > it is only available in > the enterprise edition? > > -- > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >