On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Christopher Geegan
<cgeegan AT infosecur DOT 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

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