SQL Server Compressed Backups Disk Space Needs

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Published on Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:00:00 UT Indexed on 2011/11/22 2:03 UTC
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SQL Server 2008 and later offers the ability to create compressed backup files. When creating the compressed backup, how much space is really needed and when does the space get allocated for the backup file?

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