Comments on: SQL Backup on NTFS Compressed folder

By: Vidhya Sagar

Vidhya Sagar — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:12:52 +0000

HI dcsln,
I dont have a reference to Microsoft recommendation now

By: dcsln

dcsln — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:40:32 +0000

Do you have a reference for Microsoft’s recommendation against backing up to NTFS-compressed directories?

By: D

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:34:54 +0000

This post really helped me. I have been getting those errors you mentioned for months now once the backup file grew to 30GB, even though there is free space on the disk. I usually have to do a manual backup when that happens and select the option to overwrite existing file rather than append it.

By: Kris Reddy

Kris Reddy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:15:17 +0000

Vidhya,

Thank you very much for the tip. We had exactly the same problem, and we were pulling our hair.

Once, we removed the “compress” flag, everything is working fine.

Thank you very much

Kris

By: Jeffrey Aven

Jeffrey Aven — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:24:01 +0000

Have a look at HyperBac (www.hyperbac.com), developed by original developers of LiteSpeed, runs as a service and uses file system filter compression technology, allows you to backup using native TSQL direct to compressed files (no extended stored procs or third party guis like the other solutions), plus extends compression to BCP, SSIS, DTS and online databases as well as backups