[Bacula-users] Remote Director

[James C. <ja...@ex...>]

Hi Bacula Users,

Does anyone have experience setting up Storage Daemons at different  
sites from the Director?  I'm thinking that it would be really nice to  
have a central console where I can see and control the backups of  
other sites, but I don't have the bandwidth to send all the data to  
the central location.  If I have a backup device and Storage Daemon  
local to the clients I want to back up, I think their FDs will send  
the data straight to their local SD, with the traffic to the Director  
being minimal by comparison.  As near as I can tell from the diagram  
at the end of the following page, what I want to do should be possible:

http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/What_is_Bacula.html

I'm curious for other people's experiences with this sort of setup -  
how much trouble was it, how much bandwidth does the SD actually use  
to talk with the Director, what gotchas did you run into, are there  
any security or permissions issues to keep in mind, etc.  It would be  
nice if I could give someone at each site the ability to restore their  
own site's files, but not files from other sites.

Thanks,

James