Implementation recommendations
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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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.
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