I've just released version 1.2-20091123 of SQL Server Compressed Backup which can be downloaded here.
SQL Server Compressed Backup will back up SQL Server databases using either gzip, zip or bzip2 compression.
The new features are:
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I've just released version 1.0 of MSSQL Compressed Backup. This is a command line utility that allows you to backup or restore your SQL Server 2005 databases to/from compressed files such as zip, bzip2, or gzip.
I've been working on a way to backup SQL Server 2005 databases to a compressed file recently, but without using temporary files. I recently found that it is actually pretty easy. SQL Server has an interface for creating a virtual backup device so that the data is pumped to your application, not a real device. Once the application has the data, it can compress it, encrypt it, or do whatever it likes. Maybe DBAs would like to save the data to an FTP server. There are so many options.
The application I wrote is called MSQL Compressed Backup which you can find on Sourceforge. It is currently in beta, and I don't plan to release a 1.0 version for awhile until it has had some testing by other people. If you are interested in it, please download a copy and give it a try.
Documentation is currently lacking, but here are a couple of examples. I think they are self explanatory.
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