I'll say in case you didn't think of it already, I've seen SQL databases installed and managed by a third-party application like you've described, is that the application itself may have configured some database backups or snapshots, which are often compressed in some manner themselves, which then creates inflated storage in the backups since Veeam is then backing up an already compressed file. (Being compressed, it can't be compressed again with any real efficiency in the backup.) Just in case the vendor doesn't explain much about what's going on, that could be something worth checking. Which you can probably find by looking for any single large files as the database backup is likely a single file each version.
Statistics: Posted by BackupBytesTim — Apr 18, 2025 1:46 pm
