Because of the problems I had removing Data Collector I decided to rebuild msdb. You probably heard about instmsdb.sql, but it was a long time since I actually used it. I asked about rebuilding in the MVP group and Dan Jones (MS) pointed me to a Blog post from Paul Randal on how to do this on SQL Server 2005. Here's Paul's blog ...

Having a few moments to spare, I decided to give this a spin. Specifying for the backup to be compressed is really simple. Just specify COMPRESSION in the WITH clause of the BACKUP command. For example: BACKUP DATABASE Adventureworks  TO DISK = 'C:\Advc.bak'  WITH INIT, COMPRESSION For fun, I ...