On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>  
> wrote:
>
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>  
> wrote:
>
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> + Make it possible to use several IPs on the same SD server, so that  
> bacula can have different clients connect to different SD IP (well,  
> actually the same machine).  I know there are ways of "bonding"  
> several ethernet interfaces into a "faster one", but this requires a  
> switch that support that feature.  With current servers, there  
> should not be problem for them to handle several 1Gb interfaces.
>
>
> From http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
>
> SDAddresses = <IP-address-specification>
> Specify the ports and addresses on which the Storage daemon will  
> listen for Director connections.
>
> Is this not what you need?
>
> That's not the problem, it can listen on *all* interfaces (0.0.0.0),  
> but then: how do you make "client X connect to A address, and client  
> Y connect to B address"?
>
> DNS cannot work for you?
>
> you mean DNS RR?: maybe, but it is *non-deterministic* (ie, it is  
> likely that I end up having two clients on the same interface one  
> day, and the other I have them on the other interface, and someday  
> one on each interface, and so on...)

No, not RR.  I meant what I wrote:

I have different IP addresses for my SD and create different SD  
entries in bacula-dir.conf... all of them point to the same SD.

> I have different IP addresses for my SD and create different SD  
> entries in bacula-dir.conf... all of them point to the same SD.
>
> Nice, I didn't know you could do that.  I always thought that each  
> SD had one and only one bacula-dir.conf entry, because the manual  
> states:
>
> Name = <name> The name of the storage resource. This name appears on  
> the Storage directive specified in the Job resource and is required.  
> So... the Name should be the same as in the bacula-sd.conf on the SD  
> server... How can you create several SD entries for the same SD  
> server?, does bacula just ignore the Name and goes ahead and connect?

This is documented I'm sure, for remote clients that contact the SD  
through a gateway.  Here is some of my config:

Actually, look for a new thread...


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Dan Langille
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