Hi All.
I'm currently maintaining 4 servers - 1 for public/customers and 3
for backups, development, etc...
I regularly backup the entire SQL database for our public server and
restore it on each of the other servers. Lately, however, the database
backups have grown (in size) incredibly fast - they've gone from about
200MB to 2+ GB in 2 months. (I wasn't entirely surprised by this at
first since our client traffic has drastically increased as well.) The
weird thing, though, is that (on two of the backup servers) when I
restore the backup then use those servers to create a new complete
backup, the new backup is only about 200-300 MB in size.
My assumption is that there's some kind of setting buried deep inside
the sql configuration allowing it to compress or otherwise alter
backups. Does anyone have any ideas/thoughts as to what may be causing
this issue?
We're using SQL Server 7 on Windows 2000 servers.
Thanks in advance.
Gregg
GA****@nospam.plan3D.com