Backup remote workloads without exposing Bacula to the Internet

Bacula Community Edition is an amazingly powerful open source backup software which works extremely well on private networks. However, if you need to backup workloads that are only reachable over the Internet, your first reflex may be to allow traffic to your Bacula File and Storage Daemons in your firewalls. Certainly, you can safely accomplish this by constraining access to specific source IPs on both sides, but what if you are hosting your Bacula infrastructure behind an ISP providing dynamic IPs? This post provides a solution to backup remote workloads without exposing Bacula’s endpoints to the Internet as such: You…