[From Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine]
SQL Server 2008 provides a feature, which, in my opinion, has been far overdue — backup compression. For too long, if you wanted the benefit of compressed backups, you had to look at a third-party tool. Now, backup compression is built right into SQL Server 2008, and what’s even better is that it’s easy to use.
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http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=2824