The backup cannot be performed because 'COMPRESSION' was requested after the media was formatted with an incompatible structure.

This is a new error associated to BACKUP related issues and to be specific first time on this environment. There was no setting of BACKUP COMPRESSION enabled on the SQL 2008 instance which is used by a 24/7 application, by default after the installation backup compression is off. The default behavior for backup compression is defined by the backup compression default Option server-level configuration option. See the below code which can be used to create the compressed backups on that instance irrespective...(<a href="http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2010/10/11/the-backup-cannot-be-performed-because-compression-was-requested-after-the-media-was-formatted-with-an-incompatible-structure.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9649" width="1" height="1">