I've setup backups of my desktop machine to the network drive ("File History"). Unlike Windows-7 backup utility, which I can no longer use, Windows-10 backup does not compress the data, which means, my virtual-disk images are going to eat up the space real fast.

Is there something I can still do to have my backups compressed somehow -- short of writing my own code?

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You can use NTFS compression on shared folders:

1. Right click the shared folder where the backups are saved.
2. Select Properties
3. Click Advanced...
4. Select Compress contents to save disk space
5. OK OK

NOTE: I this option isn't available you would have to run this command from the fileserver:

fsutil behavior set DisableCompression 0

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