SQL 2008 does still support this feature of splitting the Backup over multiple files.

During Backup and compression it was writting to each of the 5 files in a series basis and I am not sure how multiple procs and disks would affect, imporve this?

The compression was approx 190MB per each of the 5 files - meaning that the 980MB was split amongst the 5 files.

(Time wise it seemed to take longer a minute or two - but I would need to confirm this)

Thanks

Kevin