On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:48:32 -0500 (CDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings All, > > I was just considering more options for the backup system that we would > like to get in place and it occurred to me that it would be a great thing > if I could have the bacula client machines connect to the bacula server > via OpenVPN when it was time to do the backup and then disconnect after > the backup job was completed for that particular client. > > does anyone have any ideas or information [...]
We have many Home workers connected to the Office using OpenVPN. They run Windows on their laptops and are connected to our Active Directory domain. Our Bacula system has configurations for each of them, using the hostname as target. On the nice things about AD is that it will update DNS automatically so when a user is in the Office or at Home (and in different subnets) the hostname always points to them. Thus the same Backup jobs run fine wherever the users are. Obviously this can be a problem for those connected using low bandwidth links, but in our case we don't have any problems. Users can always shut down the Bacula FD it is bothering them, and some do. No special configuration other than a working OpenVPN and Bacula setup was required to get this working. HTH, Dominic > thanks, > Lonnie > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
