On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Christopher Geegan <cgee...@infosecur.biz> wrote: > Forgive me if this has been asked and answered. > > I have a client (FD) behind NAT and I am look for ways to initiate backup > jobs from the server without port forwarding on the client side. > > I have read numerous articles of how to resolve issues with the server > (DIR/SD) being behind NAT but to me this is easy. I have even looked over the > "Dealing with Firewalls" section of the manual. In order for bacula to work > Dir must be able to contact FD to tell it to start the backup. Port > forwarding is not an option as we have numerous clients, Linux and Windows, > behind NAT and we cannot assign an external IP to each internal FD. To me > this means I have to have a site-to-site VPN tunnel or clients each running > OpenVPN for example. > > I am hoping somone can point me towards something I missed. >
The director needs initiate a connection to the FD and the FD needs initiate a communication channel to the SD. If you can not port forward you can use a vpn tunnel for this. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
