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My company (well, not mine; I don't own it. actually seems more like it owns me...) is trying to implement a end-point protection strategy for our critical outlying Windows workstations and we are evaluating AB 12.5 (and others: CrashPlan, Carbonite, etc) to that end.

Requirements:

  • Must provide for bare-metal recovery of systems
  • Must provide for point-in-time recovery of systems
  • Must store backups on company owned hardware (cloud in addition is ok if encrypted).
  • Must allow user/engineer to perform file level recovery unassisted
  • Data de-duplication both on back-end storage and over the net.

Highly desirable:

  • No Microsoft OS Licenses required for back-end

 

I have spent several weeks trying to implement a workable on-premises implementation using a management server installed on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and have not yet been successful.  Backup to a Samba share appears to work but De-Dup does not in that configuration.  Would like to use a Storage Node but that can only be deployed on a Microsoft OS (feature request!!!).

Is there anyone out there using AB 12.5 to achieve these objectives that can give me some insight on how to do likewise?  

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Hello Dimwit Flathead,

thank you for evaluating Acronis Backup 12.5!

As I can see, you have already opened a case with Acronis support. It is true: It is not possible for now to install Acronis Storage Node on Linux, but we have plans to include this feature (internal ID ABR-115447). Unfortunately, there is no ETA for this.

You are writing that backup to a Samba share does not work with deduplication enabled. Could you please copy the full error message you receive? We have tested backing up to a NAS and shares with enabled deduplication so it must work.

All other requirements can be fulfilled with Acronis, as far as I can see. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Elizaveta,

Sorry for the late response - got pulled in other directions (happens a lot) and am just now back on the hunt for a solution.  

Ekaterina got me straightened out here on AB DeDup:  Must use backup format 11 and must use Storage Node to get DeDup across all backups and on the network traffic.

Thanks.