Are Windows Backup Files (.bkf) compressed?

Question

I'm running out of diskspace on a server - i've got a directory containing around 20gb of bkf files, which are backups of an ADAM store.

I'm thinking of applying NTFS compression to the folder to free up some space, is this a fruitless endeavor?

Thanks!!

Looking at the NTBackup/Microsoft Tape Format wiki shows no sign that this format involves data compression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTBackup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tape_Format — chickeninabiscuit, Sep 16 '10 at 04:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '10 at 04:15

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Well - I found out. These babies can be compressed.

I applied ntfs compression to my folder of 20gb of bkf - it freed about 2GB of space!

answered Sep 16 '10 at 04:15

chickeninabiscuit

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