RAM-drive, Differencing Disks, Deduplication and Backup

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Wixner

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Consider the following scenario:

What if I create a persistent RAM-drive big enough to store a SYSPREP'ped Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter and Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Core RTM (No updates) and store the differencing VHD (C: - OS) on a SSD-RAID10 with Deduplication enabled.

Add additional VHDs (Program Files and data like SQL Server and Exchange Server Databases) to a secondary SSD-RAID10 with Deduplication enabled.

Is there any (free, like Windows Server Backup, Veeam Free Edition) backup solution that would be able to handle differencing disks and deduplication?

I know that most of this configuration would probably be frowned upon by "Best Practice"-d00ds, but this is only for my private development environment