Cedric Gavage wrote: > On 1/3/09 8:27 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >> Cedric Gavage wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is there a way to initiate the backup from client side? >>> >>> I have a special case where director is outside a lan... and it can't >>> connect to client directly... but client can connect to director... >>> >>> Is it possible something like that? (without to add vpn solution). >> >> No. The Director must be able to contact the FD. This is a given. >> > > Ok, thanks for the feedback... > > Is there an alternative with something like a central catalog outside > the lan... a director connected to it from internet for example, and one > from a LAN... this last director can connect all the FD from the LAN. In > this way, can we imagine to start a job concerning a FD in the LAN from > a console connected on the "internet" director which has an access to > the "central" catalog... I don't know if my sentence is clear for you ;)
It is not clear. :) The FD must be able to contact the SD, possibly not a problem. But the FD also talks to the DIR and the DIR to the Catalog. Sure, you can put a DIR on the same LAN as the FD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
