>>>>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:01:54 +0000, David Legg said:
> 
> 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 ?

Bacula cannot connect in that direction, but you can do it using stunnel, ssh
or a VPN to set up a tunnel from the SD to the FD and then run the FD to SD
communication inside the tunnel.

__Martin

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