On 7 Aug 2007 at 14:08, Alexandre Chapellon wrote:

> Hy
> 
> I want to use bacula to make backup of data spread all over the internet...
> This works great when I can manage the two sides of the jobs (client and
> server). But I encounter problems involving firewalls with some clients
> (because it's normally the director's job to contact the fd, which is behind
> a firewall).
> I read few times ago that launching backup with the fd-client was on the
> roadmap of bacula!
> Is it already an available functionality?

No

> Can I use it to make regular backup (automatic scheduled backup)?
> Can I use to simply make one time backup?
> What would be the restriction?
> And overall is it bacula's job to do such thing?

I think all the other questions are moot given the answer above.

What you need to do is punch holes through the firewall for your 
Director.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/
Available for hire: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php



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