I've spent the last two weeks compiling, downloading, installing, building and configuring. Just when I think I'm nearly there a 200 pound gorilla jumped out and ruined everything ;-)
I have a set of remote servers I'd like to keep backed up over the internet by using Bacula to save files to a local server behind a router. All was well as I finally managed to get the director daemon on the local server to connect to the file daemon on a remote machine through port 9102. Then, when I actually attempted to run a backup job I noticed: - 30-Oct 23:56 frenzy-fd JobId 6: Fatal error: Failed to connect to Storage daemon: optimus:9103 That's when I had my Doh! moment. I think that when the file daemon (on the remote server) gets its marching orders from the director (on the local machine) the file daemon attempts to contact the storage server (on the local machine) using information supplied to it by the director. Of course this is doomed to failure because the director and the storage server are on one and the same machine and in any case the IP address is dynamically assigned by the DHCP server and is different to what the File daemon would see because of NAT. The only practical way I can see to break this problem is to reverse the direction of the connection so that the director tells the storage daemon to contact the file daemon and not the other way around. This would work because the remote client machines have a FQDN and are thus easier to reach. Don't suppose this is possible is it ? I can't believe I've come so close only to be thwarted at the last hurdle. Best Regards, David Legg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
