http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Backup and Recovery, SQL Server 2008, Compression posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)ckup compression is a new feature in SQL Server 2008 that can help provide smaller sized backups and reduce backup time. This document provides guidance related to tuning options for backup performance. All of the information and test results presented here were done specifically by using the backup compression feature of SQL Server 2008; however, they apply broadly to any backup scenario whether backup compression is used or nothttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/62929/2008/05/12http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/62929/SQL 2008 has some key improvements over SQL 2005. This article deals with backup compression and faster backups in SQL 2008http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Compression/62746/2008/05/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Compression/62746/