slow performance from a SQL Server

[Turner, Don]

I am running a nightly compression to compress the exported sql server file 
and, it takes an incredibly long amount of time.  I expect a few hours, since 
it is compressing over 100 gig of data however, it seems to be running much 
slower recently than I remember.  Are there parameters or versions that perform 
better than others?  I am fairly new to the compression problem however, have 
used many of them in the past and go back in Information Technology 20 
years...please let me know...thanks!!!

Don Turner
Senior Applications Analyst II
Enterprise Informatics
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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