SQL Backup Compression Tools

With increased sizes of SQL Server databases serving as the increased amount of data collecting and processig web application, taking sql backups and storing and archiving these sql backup files is becoming more difficult each day.

SQL professionals, especially the SQL Server database administrators require to compress sql database backup files for gaining storage sizes for future use.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has introduced the sql backup compression feature in order to solve this problem of SQL DBAs.

Of course, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 does not have the sql backup compression feature. But using third-party tools, database administrators can carry out the same solution for their SQL2005 database servers.

The two sql backup compression tools that can be used for this purpose Red-Gate SQL Backup and LiteSpeed SQL Server Backup Compression Tool.

For more information on SQL compression tools please refer to SQL Server Backup Compression Software Guide.