Different sized files when DB saved in different locations

[jackinnh]

When I save a database on a remote hard drive for backup purposes, the file on my C drive is larger than the file on the remote hard drive. The data seems to be the same. Why the different file size?

[Rabbit]

One hard drive is probably formatted with FAT and the other with NTFS. That or one has compression on.

[jackinnh]

Rabbit,

Thanks, you were right on the money. I had forgotten about that.