A metropolitan transport agency ran a 20TB SQL Server database against a two-hour recovery objective. The backup took up to six hours.
The numbers did not meet, and the DBA team knew it. They had zero confidence they would make the objective in a real event. A backup you cannot restore in time is not really a backup — it is a hope.
We implemented database compression.
The database came down to 12TB. Backup and restore now both finish inside two hours, back within the SLA the agency had set.
You guys are amazing. I didn’t even know this was possible. — Susan, Senior DBA
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