http://blogs.msdn.com/buckwoody/archive/2009/06/09/compressed-backups-restore-faster.aspxThere's been some chatter on a few of the newsgroups I subscribe to about backup compression in SQL Server 2008. It seems that some folks are noticing that restoring from a compressed backup actually restores faster than an uncompressed one. This mighten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/buckwoody/archive/2009/06/09/compressed-backups-restore-faster.aspx#9726658Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:30:17 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9726658mbourgon<p>Makes perfect sense - we all have a lot more free CPU time available than disks idle. &nbsp;You see the same things on Litespeed - heck, that's been one of their selling points for a while - less space _and_ runs faster.</p>