On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:22 +0200, Stephan Holl wrote: > I am doing exactly what you are trying to achieve. One thought I was > struggeling when using an ssh-tunnel. > > I had to redirect the output of the ssh-command to /dev/null > (> /dev/null) in order to make the RunBeforeJob-directive work properly. > > Perhaps this is your problem as well?!
Could be. I'll give it a whirl. For now I have cron opening the tunnel before the backups will start and then a Run After Job will close the tunnel down. Hackish but it works. > I also needed to make sure that the user which running bacula (bacula, > on Suse8.0) has the ability to open an ssh-tunnel and vis versa. I > did that by creating ssh-keys for the user bacula and copied them to > the remote machine. > For a more verbose output you can add -v to the ssh-command > inside the script. > On my system, bacula is running as Root. I know, possible security flaw, I'll cross that bridge at a later time. So root is more than capable of opening the tunnel. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
