Tim,

It would be the same sort of setup in a local environment, but you would be
exchanging hostnames/local ip's with external ip's.  Obviously, allowing
access through your firewall. Also, make sure you actually have a connection
between server and client on port 9102.  You would still need to change your
bacula config files accordingly too.

Are they windows or linux clients?

Linux client it would look something like this in the bacula-dir.conf - then
you would have to setup storage configurations, etc.

# Linux server file set to backup
FileSet {
  Name = "Linux Full Set"
  Include {
    Options {
      signature = SHA1
    }

# Included files (WILL BE BACKED UP)
    File = /
}

I would start reading up, has all the information to backup directories on
the client (if I'm following your question exactly)
http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION
00220000000000000000
http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/index.html


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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Dunphy [mailto:bluethundr AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 4:54 PM
To: John Drescher
Cc: bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup remote clients

Hi John,

> What do you mean by remote? Machines that are on the same network or 
> is there a firewall blocking connections from the client to server?

Different networks. Bacula server is on AWS, Bacula client is on Rackspace
Cloud. Client is firewalled but I've opened the appropriate port 9102, if
memory serves?).

I just need to know how to configure the server to backup directories on the
client. Where can I find the docs for this type of setup?


Thanks
Tim
Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:10 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

>> Bacula and bconsole are running happily on my backup server. But not 
>> I need to know how to backup remote clients. Sorry if this is an 
>> obvious question but does anyone know where I can find the docs that tell
me how to do this?
>> 
> 
> What do you mean by remote? Machines that are on the same network or 
> is there a firewall blocking connections from the client to server?
> 
> John

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