Compressing SharePoint Backups with LiteSpeed FastCompression
Microsoft SharePoint content databases are notoriously difficult to compress. Users upload Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations into the SharePoint sites, and these bulky files go straight into the SQL Server database. They’re tough to compress, and the files just keep piling up as more users start using the company intranet.
Even worse, us database administrators are told that SharePoint is now mission-critical, and we have to make sure we back it up as fast and as often as possible. How do we do it? In this five-minute video, Brent Ozar shows how to use LiteSpeed’s new FastCompression to pull it off.
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