Using SQL Server Compressed Backups
The Quick Scan report in Database Health Monitor detects when you are performing SQL Server backups without compression, when the compression option is available. This applies to Full backups, Transaction log backups and Differential backups.
Not using compressed backups? Why not?
Benefits of compressed backups
- Faster backup time
- Faster restore time
- Less I/O at backup and restore time
- Since you are using less disk space, you can keep more backups around.
There are a couple minor drawbacks, the compressed backups take more CPU, not much more, but a tiny bit more. Also the compressed backups don’t compress very much when your database is using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).