In SQL Server you can also compress your encrypted backups. Unlike TDE this has been possible with Backup Encryption since the feature was first made available, and there have been no issues that have required fixing – though as always you should still test that restores work correctly. As mentioned in my post about compression… Read more

Unlike TDE, there is some extra CPU overhead when you take an encrypted backup as the data has to be encrypted before being written to disk – whereas with TDE the data is already encrypted. Backup times however are unlikely to be affected significantly as the bottleneck is usually going to be the time it… Read more

In this post we look at how you work with the Backup Encryption Feature in SQL Server. Read more