Monday, August 25, 2008

SQL 2008 Backup compression and Data Encryption

1. SQL backup compression and TDE encryption are mutually exclusive.
2. CPU impact (Expect 25% to 30% CPU utilization increase at least)
3. Require EE version, but any 2008 version can restore it
4. Compressed backup need to reside on the same media. Uncompressed backups reside on a different media. Compressed and uncompressed backups can not co exist in a media set
5. Previous bersions of SQL server can not read compressed backups.
6. NTbackups can not share a tape with compressed SQL server backups.


To calculate the compression ratio of a backup, use the values for the backup in the backup_size and compressed_backup_size columns of the backupset history table, as follows:

backup_size:compressed_backup_size

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