On Fri 04 September 2009 12:31:22 pm Syn, Joonho wrote:
> Is there a way to make the client initiate backup jobs?  Here at my
> workplace our client machines are all running firewalls which prevent them
> the bacula-dir from being able the reach the client on port 9102.  For
> testing purposes I manually disabled the firewall but since we are part of
> a larger organization we have no way to unblock ports as needed.

The short answer is no, not from within Bacula. But, there are ways around 
this and it has been discussed extensively. Please check the archives.

cmr

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