jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Sep 11 13:29:04 CDT 2009
Francisco, I wrote a stored procedure to house the script for the Idera backup TSQL. Ran it against one of my order databases. The database was 2.972 gb and the backup was 1.165 gb which is just under 40% of the original file size. This will help immensly! I have databases that are 190 gigs, 170 gigs, 130 gigs etc. Getting them down to 40% will allow me to store them on an "external" terabyte drive. I will now build the restore script and try running it against my other server to see if I can restore the db over on the second machine. Good stuff! Thanks for the pointer to the free software, it seems to work great. This will relieve the immense pressure of having huge databases and not having a plan for backups. Depending on a raid array (which I understand is NOT a backup plan) only gets you so far! John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Francisco Tapia wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >