Holy smokes what an adventure!!
Here's the software I am using for this:
I had bacula 2.4.4 running on my Mac, which I am using as my director and
as my storage daemon (I have an external USB drive sticking off of it just
for backups).
VPN, I am using OpenVPN, and, for grins, I downloaded OpenVPNGUI for my
windows box.
Initially I installed the latest windows 32-bit client, which is 3.0.
Once I got the VPN connection set up, I installed the Bacula client for
Windows. Pretty much a click and accept, then paste the authentication code
into the director's configs.
With client 3.0, I got an error of HELO refused. Did some digging and saw
that somebody else had run into issues with version deltas. Uninstalled
Bacula3.0 and Installed Bacula 2.4.4. That cleared that HELO hurdle and the
file daemon would then accept connections from the director.
The next problem was that the file daemon had no idea where the storage
daemon was, which necessitated editing Windows XP's hosts file to point it
in the right direction (to the VPN IP). XP stores its hosts file in an odd
location, which makes things a little more ticklish. I found it on my
machine in C:\Windows\Windows32\Drivers\etc. Used to be in the base system
folder, but, I guess it moved....
Anyway, with those things set up and in place, I am very happy to say that
I have Bacula running automated backups from a Mac director, with both unix
and windows clients, across a VPN!
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