My original reply must have got lost.
It is my understanding that deduplication and compression is handled by the DD. It is odd that from my Enterprise server I can manually create a file in the cifs share but I can not add the UNC as a storage unit. I am assuming it is referenced as a storage unit. I have only had tape libraries up to this point.
These are the current licenses on the Master Server. Gives me a headache....
Feature: Additional clients (Active)
Feature: ADIC DAS/SDLC Robotic Libraries (Active)
Feature: Bare Metal Restore (Active)
Feature: Base NetBackup (Active)
Feature: DataStore (Active)
Feature: Encryption (Active)
Feature: Encryption (Legacy DES 40-bit) (Active)
Feature: Encryption (Legacy DES 56-bit) (Active)
Feature: Enterprise Vault Agent (Active)
Feature: Enterprise Vault Agent (Active)
Feature: Fujitsu LMF Robotic Libraries (Active)
Feature: IBM ATL Robotic Libraries (Active)
Feature: Inline Tape Copy (Active)
Feature: Library Based Tape Drives (Active)
Feature: Microsoft RSM Robotic Libraries (Active)
Feature: Open File Backup (Active)
Feature: Open File Backup (Active)
Feature: Remote Client Support (Active)
Feature: Remote Media Server Support (Active)
Feature: Robotic Library Sharing Support (Active)
Feature: Shared Storage Option (Active)
Feature: StorageTek ACS Robotic Libraries (Active)
Feature: Vault (Active)