performing the inline deduplication by filtering streaming data as it is received by a backup client through a backup server executing a backup process;

performing, in a central processing unit (CPU) of the backup client, a segmentation process to determine where to break the streaming data into a plurality of segments;

calculating, in the CPU, a reference for each segment of the plurality of segments;

deploying a data processing unit (DPU) functionally coupled to the CPU to perform at least some of the processing performed by the CPU, wherein the DPU comprises a system on a chip (SoC) device operates independently of the CPU with independent microcode to operate as a virtual machine operating in reduced-privilege mode relative to the CPU;

compressing, in the DPU, each segment;

encrypting, in the DPU, each compressed segment; and

backing up the streaming data by the inline deduplication of the backup process.